Doane Spencers Sunbeam Tiger

[Steve Holmes]

This car was built by 3 Tiger owners of the Sunbeam Car Club back in the mid 80's and was frequently seen at Pukekohe, Wellington, street races,Manfeild,Wings & Wheels etc.It was based on the Doana Spencer car with similar aero screen,black colour and always raced with 55 on the doors.The engine produced 400 Hp from a single 4 barrel Holley 715, Ford Toploader 4spd and 2 different diff ratios for short or long tracks. Like all Tigers straight line performance was its strong suit and was often up with front runners in the all-comers last race of the day.
The engine was taken out and put into a Sylva Striker V8 the owners built a few years later.But talking to them just the other day they tell me they are going to bring the Tiger out of retirement with a bigger motor and the biggest brakes that will fit,it will be great to see it back on the track . Graham Attachment 8530

Hey thats fantastic, a really neat looking car. Great to hear its due to return to the track. I hope the owner will carefully consider where they want to race it before making any upgrades to it?

[markson]

Something like what I imagined AMCO72 to have driven way back,after reading his post
in Yards and Yarns Page 4 post 69. Graham

[markson]

A nice example of a NZ restored Sunbeam Tiger Graham

[markson]

The Tiger is out of it's cage

[Michael Clark]

I watched a number of races with Allan Currie at Taupo on Saturday - very much alive and well!

[markson]

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[kiwi285]

I missed this thread first time round - has this black Tiger made it back on track yet. I could imagine that it would be up there in allcomers races with that power in a small car like the Tiger. Looks smart too.

[markson]

A racing Tiger or a Series 2 Alpine convert ???

[markson]

My Alpine V6 to Tiger conversion

V6 out


V8 in
Markson

[Roger Dowding]

My Alpine V6 to Tiger conversion

V6 out


V8 in
Markson

Markson, what was the V6, a Ford I presume ?? and how big ??? Saw an MX5 once back in NZ that ran the Mazda V6, of around 2 litres, back when the cars were 1600 NA series 1 ..

[markson]

It was an Ford essex v6 bored 195thou using forged 283 Chev flat top pistons with combustion chambers in the heads, the crank was cross drilled with 5 bolt main bearing brace, it ran a 350 holly carb on a Harcourt manifold I ran a 5 speed Alfa Romeo gearbox ,it ran a MK1 Jag diff 3.7.1 ratio I think it was quicker than a standard Tiger and handled a lot better .bearing in mind that it was in the late seventies It gave some 30 0dd thousand trouble free miles before it was converted to a V8 Tiger ???.Markson