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Hi I've got a 302 in my Tiger, huge aluminium radiator with kenlowe fan and an oil cooler. I've never had issues in the past, the fan would come on at about 90° and it would hover around there even sitting in traffic in 30° heat. The car's just finished a major restoration and during the rebuild the...

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I've searched all over but oddly can't find a torque setting for the wheel nuts, can somebody put me out of my misery please?

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Dave

Thanks Gary and Graham, I went for a seamless finish as I think it looks better.

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Dave

Hi all Just came across this post as I'm approaching the carpet stage of a restoration. As suggested, I'm looking at these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254501502182?fits=Car+Make%3ASunbeam%7CModel%3ATiger&hash=item3b4178bce6:g:GIQAAOxyRhBS7RA~ and these: https://www.carcarpets.co.uk/sunbeam-tiger-mki...

Hi Gary

Thanks for your reply, very helpful.

Mine was registered 30.4.65 which makes it 'early' I guess. I'm still undecided, mine's never gonna win prizes for originality so I think I'll probably just go with what I think looks best and have all the seams welded up.

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Dave

Hi Should the seams between front vallance and front wings be visible? Similarly the seams fore and aft of the sills? Personally I think they look better de-seamed. I've been looking at pictures in the cat's whiskers and on the net and where you can see, there seems to be about a 50/50 split. Any gu...

Can anyone recommend a source of wiring looms for MK1? I was looking at the ones from autosparks https://www.autosparks.co.uk/sunbeam-tiger-wiring-harness-set-1 but I seem to remember reading somewhere of a loom with complete with larger fusebox and additional fuses but maybe I dreamt that.. Cheers ...

Thanks Gary.

From what I can get from google the engine block end is 1/4 NPT so I've ordered 6 foot braided 1/4 NPT to 1/8 BSP from Think Automotive who were very helpful.

I'll report back if it fits, fingers crossed....

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I need to get a new pipe for my tiger. Tried to get one from Sunbeam Spares but no joy there. Can anybody advise where else I might get one or, failing that, the length and fitting sizes so I can get one made up by e.g. Think Automotive ?

Thanks in advance
Dave

Hi Bob, thanks for that, I looked on ebay but I couldn't find much at all - maybe my ignorance of ebay...

From memory, there's no rust at all but I will take a closer look over the next couple of days. It's hanging from the garage roof but the carcoon is in the way so it's not easy to get at...

Hi I've had my Tiger for 8 years and never fitted the hardtop in all that time. It's a bit of a pain to store so I'm thinking of flogging it but I haven't the faintest idea what they're worth, I've googled but not really found anything useful. It came with the car when I bought it and it's in good n...

Thanks for those, food for thought....

Ash, that's a nice idea to use a pukkah rootes colour - now, if I could just find a picture of one in that colour....

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Dave

Cheers Gary, maybe that metal-flake tangerine with the pink leather interior then...

Apologies if I offend any purists but does a non-standard colour significantly affect the value do you think?

I'm not talking about anything lary, I quite fancy that metallic grey you sometimes see e-types in but if it knocks £5k off the value I'll stick to red!

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Dave