Stopped working on Tiger

Been trying to work on the Tiger so I can drive it to Suni… no time to post. Finally got the dual master cylinders on the firewall (story and pictures here: http://members.shaw.ca/tsmit/pedals/pedals.html, machining brake caliper adapters right now, then I have to plumb all that stuff and THEN I wire in the Retrotek BossEFI to see if it all works.

We’ve had the coldest winter in quite a while here in Calgary – snow on the ground since the middle of December, and several weeks of -20 and colder. In-floor heating in the garage is awesome.

the tiger has been naping while i work on the alpine v6 conversion. just about ready to take the alpine to the media blaster and body shop for a paint job. then i can wake her up and put her on the lift to test fit the cat headers then send them to the ceramic coater. when finished install the headers and upgrade the stainless to 2 1/4 stainless all the way back. then its sort out some elect issues. earl blu oval

Hi,

That is very interesting as turbo cars would have been in the very early stages of their life. To have a twin turbo setup would have been unheard of. Even the top rally cars at that time were still naturally aspirated. Hopefully someone will own up if true.

Regards, Robin.

Larry Mayfield (mayf from the team.net mailing list) has his twin turbo land speed record racer. Best so far is 185 MPH in 2007 I think…

I finally got the Retrotek BossEFI up and going to the point where I’ll take it around the block here sometime in the next couple of days. For full roadworthiness my to-do list is down to getting the sway bar hooked up, putting in a brake light switch, throttle return springs, and making the turn-right signals work. Then there will be some intensive sorting-out drives to see if I should drive or trailer down to Suni.

True enough. Mayf’s car is an Alpine with major chassis surgery and it’s not even a little streetable. http://www.mayfco.com/msports.htm

Hi,

That is one very interesting setup 8) . The paint job certainly fits in with the 70’s 🙂 . Not easy to make out how the turbos are piped. With a car like that, I would assume that it would not have gone un-noticed that easily. Someone must know what happened to it.

Regards, Robin

Hi,

That is some very serious horse power 😯 . When is the first track run as I am sure we would all like to hear about its run? Have you posted any pictures of the engine setup (if not, can you)?

Regards, Robin.

Great run 8) . With the new setup what is the quickest time that you hope to achieve?

Regards, Robin.

Hey Jerry

How much Torque do you figure you are producing? Is it possible to mount a video camera inside of your Tiger for the run at Tulsa? Maybe on the Dash ❓ Ofcourse, you would need high speed tape

Rob

http://www.robmartel.com

Jerry
Nope, I have never seen a dry ice and alcohol set-up. I have seen dry ice used for blasting welding slag of off welding fixtures in some car plants I have contracted with. I like the evaporation attributes of the product without leaving residue.
I still think liquid nitrogen would help in keeping your existing design cooler. Considering you already have a working design in a confined space, I would suggest building a sleeved reservoir around the vertical exit pipe as a secondary after cooler, outer cooler. Another suggestion would be to build a reservoir inside of your ice box and use the liquid nitrogen to keep your ice life longer. I can only geuss that your turbo’s cubic feet per minute does not allow enough SOAK time for the turbo air to absorb the cold.
Do you have room inside of the passenger side cabin to fabricate and install a reservoir around the pressurised pipe? Or, it may work better if you had a smaller dia. pipe inside of the existing pipe acting as a reservoir for the liquid with an electronicly controlled solenoid to control flow of the nitrogen.
It sounds like I am spending your money like the big boys in the new car sponsored programs, but I understand you are of limited fund$ and NOT suckling on any corporate nipple. These are just suggestions I am sharing from my years of Toolmaking for Tier one suppliers. FYI: I was a leadhand in the Largest Industrial Jobbing shop in Ontaro Canada at the age of 23, my experience is well respected amongst Engineers.
Just because something has not been done before increases my interest and motivation. I did not take sheet metal nor Autobody in highschool nor have I ever worked in an autobdy shop but I have built a considerable amount of show-wining autos and high quality replacement panels.
After you pull off some nice 9 second passes, I think you have the power to challenge the Big Blocks with your set up, but unfortunately I also know all about destructive testing, and the Tiger will show her limits too soon.
A camera in your Tiger would be awesome viewing ( much along the same thrill of running a Cooper S through Britain in the early morning, only better) and I can only imagine the sound would be great also!!

Rob Martel
http://www.robmartel.com
😀

http://autospeed.com.au/cms/title_The-Fusion-Intercooler/A_110772/article.html
Here’s an interesting article on phase change intercooling… basically you take a regular air to water type cooler, fill the water passages full of melted wax, cap off the (wax) ports, and you’re done. The idea is that it takes a significant amount of heat energy to melt the wax, and while that melting is going on the temperature of the wax stays constant at about 120 F. You won’t get as dense a charge as you would from intercooling with dry ice, but there is a whole lot less maintenance involved.

You’d have to size the thermal mass of the wax so you could have it last for a burnout, staging, and a pass… interesting design problem.

Jerry,

How did your race go in Tulsa? 😀