- 1. Unleaded Fuel... (score: 1)
- Author: Peter Laurinaitis <laurin212@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:03:34 -0800 (PST)
- Quick question - did Tiger engines ever need to be converted/modified at all to run reliably on unleaded fuel? I thought I heard that the heads or valves needed to be hardened or something like that
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- 2. Re: Unleaded Fuel... (score: 1)
- Author: CoolVT@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:18:44 EST
- Your Tiger, originally, would not have hardened valve seats. From everything I've read, unless the car is going to be used in an extreme way like racing or pulling a trailer, then it isn't worth wor
- /html/tigers/2005-12/msg00007.html (6,962 bytes)
- 3. Re: Unleaded Fuel... (score: 1)
- Author: Steve Sage <fastsage@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:33:01 -0700
- My Tiger with its 289 does have hardened seats so I don't know for sure if that would be an issue for a Tiger. However, it definitely was for my last Series V Alpine. I had the engine rebuilt and wen
- /html/tigers/2005-12/msg00009.html (7,645 bytes)
- 4. RE: Unleaded Fuel... (score: 1)
- Author: " Ron Fraser" <rfraser@bluefrog.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:16:17 -0500
- I never had good results with lead additive, it only seemed to foul the spark plugs yearly so I stopped using any. I don't believe valve recession is a big problem with a stock Tiger. I believe the
- /html/tigers/2005-12/msg00010.html (7,802 bytes)
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