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Has anyone got:

1. Chrome side strips
2. 260 badge
3. Sunbeam letters
4. Wooden dash
5. Wiring looms
6. False floors
7. S/S exhaust
8. Carpet set.
9. Electric fuel pump.
10. Radiator shroud

plus all the other rubber bits that melt in a fire.

cheers
Brad

almost everything listed here except the shroud and the false floors can be bought new from the relevant spares dealers. Would recommend you to try Brian at first. Furthermore the original fuel pump is a pain the neck. Try to get a new alternative w/o contacts otherwise probability is very high that you´ll have a lot of troubles...

Brad,

Rick at SS lists repro shrouds, Randy Willet in the states sells false floors (but LHD) as bernd mentioned all the other bits are available from the usual suppliers in the UK and States.

Just like to expand on Bernd's point about SU fuel pumps. I had the version that had been converted to electronic switching versus the contact point mechanism. Lasted me about 20 years.

Unfortunately it starting dying on me when I was in the middle of the State of Georgia (USA) on a trip from Chicago to Tampa, Florida in the middle of our summer a couple of years ago. Managed to limp last 600 miles into destination in the cool of night with frequent stops.

A fellow tiger owner in Florida had an interesting perspective. He prefers the old point type mechanism. As he pointed out, the electronic system is great until it fails, then you are totally out of luck. With the mechanical system, you can open the "battery" door, remove the pump end cover, replace and gap the points and be on your way again. So in some respects, there could be some advantages to the mechanical, points type mechanism, depending on your circumstances.

It was during all of this that I learned the fittings for the SU fuel pump and the fuel line are a British pipe thread or something like that that is not readily found over here in the US. (Same situation as for the fuel line to cross over pipe at the tanks.) Also there seem to be some unique sealing washers that were not with my replacement SU pump. Managed to re-use the old ones fortunately. Fortunately, the pump was never replaced with a non- SU pump so I had the correct fittings on my lines. If your pump is not an original, hope you still have the old fittings and washers if you want to go back to a SU.

Sorry if I am the last one to have learned all of this. Certainly less likely to be a problem for you chaps in the UK! I am just passing my experience along as an abundance of caution in case it is useful to anyone else.

Gene

Thanks Chaps,

looks like i'll be drawing up a fairly large shopping list,

cheers
Brad

Brian sells shrouds and you can create a Tiger false floor from an Alpine one. It would ofcourse deprive the World of an Alpine spare.

seemingly this turns into an interesting discussion. Certainly not the right place here but anyhow perhaps somebody may considerto move it to the proper chapter.

The fuel pump thing can be discussed forever. Of course replacing the good old SU with something modern can backfire. It always depends of what you install. It´s a similar discussion as with the electronic ignitions and in some cases the aftermarket quality is worse than the original parts...

Regarding the false floor: Never fitting them but what´s the actual difference ? Would expect the Tiger one´s to be slimmer...

Excuse my ignorance, but whats a false floor & where does it go? Is it the timber one in the boot. I'm worried now that my car might not be original.

It's like a floor, only different, and it goes, well, on the floor.
Happy Tigering

bigbob wrote:Excuse my ignorance, but whats a false floor & where does it go? Is it the timber one in the boot. I'm worried now that my car might not be original.

The false floor is also reffered to as the toe board. Its the panel fitted to the passengers side of an alpine or tiger that the passenger puts their feet on. Gives a nice flat surface to make the floor mats easier to. They came into production on the S3 alpines onwards.

Thanks for that, mystery solved. I had a footrest/toeboard once, but it rusted away a while ago. Thought there must be something else I was missing.

They are there for your passenger to use as a brake pedal.

Brad, are you still looking for a carpet set? I have one in storage but it's not new and need to check out the condiition. If interested I'll dig it out and take some photos

TXJ7 wrote:Brad, are you still looking for a carpet set? I have one in storage but it's not new and need to check out the condiition. If interested I'll dig it out and take some photos

Thanks for the offer, but i'll go with a new set as they are not too dear.

cheers
Brad

Brad1380 wrote:Has anyone got:

1. Chrome side strips
2. 260 badge
3. Sunbeam letters
4. Wooden dash
5. Wiring looms
6. False floors
7. S/S exhaust
8. Carpet set.
9. Electric fuel pump.
10. Radiator shroud

plus all the other rubber bits that melt in a fire.

cheers
Brad

Thanks for the info gents,
should also add
11. Holley, probably ebay one.
12. Tiger air cleaner.
13. Tiger rocker covers.
14. Some better wheels, be nice to get away from Minilites.