Archive for 'Sunbeam Tiger'
Wheels for the Tiger
Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by sandy.
Had to pick up a set of roller 5 lug rims for the Sunbeam in anticipation of the axle changes. I found another Tiger owner that had used the 2005 16″ Mustang Halibrand style rims with some spacers and it looked pretty good. I found a set off of ebay which was local (save $100 on shipping) and picked them up. The 16″ rims have plenty of room for the 11.75″ brake and Superlite 6 caliper even without the spacer. The wheel offset for these rims are 39mm so a good amount of spacer will be required on the front, maybe .75″ or so as a guess and maybe .5″ for the rear. Baer brakes makes some that can be used with long studs in a lot of sizes so should be easy to get close. The goal is still to use 15″ rims for the race tires but for now these should do just fine. They even included the mock spinner. I should paint them black like ‘The Rippers’ rims, maybe the Tiger needs to be red and black now 
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Sunbeam Tiger Front Suspension
Posted on 11. Jan, 2009 by sandy.
Well I finally got into the garage and took a couple of picture of the Tiger front end. The main website Here has the start of that chapter. I also talk a bit about the brake madness and show some differences in the Wilwood Dynalite and Superlite brake pads.
This is the link here as well –
http://www.gtsparkplugs.com/TigerFrontSuspension.html
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Brake Madness
Posted on 29. Dec, 2008 by sandy.
Well still no picture on the custom Sunbeam Tiger front suspension. But in chatting with a fellow Tiger racer (well I’m not one yet) he was mentioning his brake set up using 12.19″ Rotors on 15″ wheels and thought, damn I have 11.75″ I should of course upgrade. The one thing I don’t like are the Dynalites on the front side of the car. “The Ripper” has Superlite 6 Piston on the fronts and they work really well. The dynalites have much less pad surface then the Superlite series, so task of fitting them in was also on the books. After all that found even a better caliper that would almost bolt on (Dynapro 6 Piston) but seems it does not fit 1.25″ Rotors. Crap, would have been easy no changes just new larger calipers and pads. Well back to the drawing board. In researching more of the Superlite calipers you can get them in narrow outside body and that helps, also found a kit for a Superformance Cobra with, guess what, Superlite’s and 12.19″ rotors. Seems they run a Mustang II spindle as well, so might get really lucky if it all fits and just use a stock Wilwood bracket! The Superlite calipers will work on 11.75″ rotors as well, but in for a dime in for a dollar as they say (They in this case is the little voice in my head that says get the best brakes possible). Another interesting thing is the Superlite’s have a smaller overall height off the top of the rotor vs. the Dynalites, just at tick, but it will all help. The only area of concern is rim interference on the front face of the caliper to rim. Will just have to see how that goes as the thicker pads move things out a bit.
The Calipers, GT Directional rotors, bracket should be here early Janurary. Brake compounds that were ordered were the nice J Pads, but they may have discontinued that compound, so may have to try another maybe B, C, or H.
What to do with the Dynalite’s? Rear brakes of course. Will have to shim them back for the 9″ Brackets for the 1.25″ rotors, I have but should not be an issue, or I’ll just have to use thinner rotors or make some new brackets…
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Roller Cam Madness
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by sandy.
Well My initial thought was to use a smaller mechanical roller vs a LARGER roller. After hours of playing with Desktop Dyno and messing with the various configuratins to make it the best guess of parameters with all my combinations it seems the smaller cam would wind up into the 7000 RPM point pretty cleanly if put in a couple of degrees retarded. Well after some discussion with the QMP racing he advised that it would just be better to go for the larger cam and not move it around. Sold. So back to the drawing board. The next larger cam up the food chain was the one that I was originally going to run which instead of the advertised 6500 rpm limit, was a real 7000 limit. I ordered the 35-772 Comp Cams XR286 R-10 and now feel satisfied that I have reversed out a conservative decision. Will have to see how hot this cam is, I’m guessing not much more but in the Tiger it might be a bit on the large side, well then I guess mission acomplished. Anyone need a 35-771 XR280 Mechanical roller
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Sunbeam Tiger Top Loader Page
Posted on 12. Oct, 2008 by sandy.
I just started working on getting the drivetrain page up on the main site. I just put up some images of the Tilton Hydraulic Release bearing and retainer plate for the Tiger’s toploader. The transmission is from David Kee Toploaders and more info on the gearbox, clutch, pressure plate, release bearing and the differential are up on the new page.
