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81. Re: car show (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:40:56 -0800; It seems the Tiger has not only crossed the Atlantic, but culture as well! Maybe with some Alpine spoked wheels, skinny white wall tires and two batteries in the trunk (a deterrent to Lucas gremlins; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00048.html (8,356 bytes)
82. Re: Tiger values (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:01:39 -0800; Wow, my 1973 Plymouth Valiant (A Rootes parent company) hit all but one of the criteria. But, I'm welding up the rear doors as we speak (type), Fresno is not that far from Thousand Oaks and I'm on my; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00067.html (8,346 bytes)
83. Re: Rocket Olds and Muscle Cars (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:44:50 -0800; No legend is without it's "history." Back in the early 1970's (when I was a teenager racing slot cars) there was a V-8, Black & White Olds running in the NHRA V/Stock class titled the "County Mounty"; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00082.html (9,521 bytes)
84. Re: The First "Formula" Muscle Car (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:51:12 -0800; It seems that the greater difficulty in finding a definition (car wise) for the term "Muscle Car" is that it did not come into use until the 1960's. However, retrospectively when one looks at "like"; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00146.html (8,382 bytes)
85. Re: Rear End Gear Ratios (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:01:14 -0800; For anyone who is budget minded (or desires a stock appearance) I have long been considering an application that seems to eliminate the problems of the close ratio box and the 1:1 ratio final drive o; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00147.html (9,536 bytes)
86. Re: Top Secret Top Loader? (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:04:26 -0800; A few years ago I learned that Jim Boynton had an original Tiger spare with little or no wear. I asked him to send me the measurements. I specifically asked for circumfrence for accuracy. If you need; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00177.html (7,759 bytes)
87. Re: eBay Tiger (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:33:05 -0800; I just saw the pictures Malcom made available (and the underside shot on Ebay). Being the owner of a "near" basket case Tiger (and a black one at that) it reminds me of the pictures the previous owne; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00205.html (9,054 bytes)
88. Re: MOTOR PERFORMANCE (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:52:21 -0800; engine stops,<<< Then again 10 minutes to remove the valve covers and back off the rockers would solve that. It might help the valve springs too. Thought I'm not sure one really wants to close it up; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00210.html (8,046 bytes)
89. Re: A Good Motor (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:06:56 -0800; I recall that when the then "Aero" looking 1983 T-Bird came out that the ads stated that it took only 11 HP to maintain it at what I think was 60 mph (it might have been less mph). Maybe other brains; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00243.html (6,996 bytes)
90. Re: Fuel mileage, distributors, etc. (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 22:17:54 -0800; Under little or nearly no load an engine can handle more spark advance. This helps economy and to some degree cruising power (the rest of the more intelligent folk on the list will have to explain "; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00271.html (8,765 bytes)
91. Re: my stupid teen moments (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:14:12 -0800; I and my friends were Datsun 510 nuts back in the mid 70's. One damp and drissle night my car kept stalling after a High School basketball game. My friend (we called him "Wild Bill") reluctantly agre; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00294.html (8,089 bytes)
92. Re: Wow, eBay item. (car reg. year) (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:21:30 -0800; And what a JOY that was years ago when the Calif. smog cut off was 1965. I had a Volvo 544 last manufactured in 1965, but unfortunately one of a handful registered as a 1966. It had to the the oldest; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00349.html (8,472 bytes)
93. Re: Wow, eBay item. (car reg. year) (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:14:28 -0800; as except, and now it must me '65 or you must have year model working pollution equipment and periodic inspections.<<< Steve, Are you refering to Calif. smog laws? The reason I ask is I was just rea; /html/tigers/2004-12/msg00363.html (7,878 bytes)
94. Re: Dr. Gas - Rationale (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:25:09 -0800; If the X pipe is documented to work I guess that there is no disputing it. However, logically it would seem that as the two exhaust flows cross each others paths that one would inhibit the flow of th; /html/tigers/2004-11/msg00026.html (7,512 bytes)
95. Re: Corrected: Tiger weight distribution (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:57:15 -0800; When we get this question all sorted out then we can begin to factor in the "layed on lead" weights that the factory says needs to be used to properly align the car. However, in the end I think it wi; /html/tigers/2004-11/msg00148.html (8,077 bytes)
96. Re: Dana 44 questions.... (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:21:18 -0800; Somehow I missed the original post, so I can only sumize from Theo's reply what you were asking about (changing the gears in your Dana 44???). I am doing a very low budget resto on my Tiger. An unfo; /html/tigers/2004-11/msg00188.html (8,348 bytes)
97. Re: Parts to solve the Ackerman Angle (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:21:38 -0800; YES. There is a difference in the Midget racks. I know, I bought the wrong one! I think the upper cut off year was 1971, but please confirm that with someone else as I don't recall exactly. The latt; /html/tigers/2004-11/msg00190.html (8,293 bytes)
98. Re: A new "angle" on Ackerman (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:33:47 -0800; In moving the rack back 0.5" what method did you use to accomplish this? Did you cut and re-weld the mounts on the crossmember? My recollection is that the rubber covers seem to come very close to d; /html/tigers/2004-11/msg00213.html (8,685 bytes)
99. Re: A new "angle" on Ackerman (mayf's) (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:16:57 -0800; While a t**d is still a t**d, I'll take a polished t**d over the garden variety t**d any day of the week! I believe you are right in that the Tiger steering was far more "engineered" (so to speak) t; /html/tigers/2004-11/msg00216.html (7,400 bytes)
100. Re: Origin of the Tiger Ackerman Angle (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:20:27 -0800; You got that right Steve. It was a great talk! Sadly for those that couldn't be there a difficulty exist for making the tape available to the general public (Steve was given a copy by Buck for transc; /html/tigers/2004-11/msg00225.html (8,875 bytes)

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