- Hey, everybody.
Brad Phillips here with Hagerty.
This is episode five
of the Sunbeam Tiger Redline Rebuild 289 Swap.
So as we talked about in the last episode,
yeah, I got the motor out.
And we have some really cool stuff that's gonna be happening
with the project that I'm gonna show you
and then we're gonna start swapping parts over.
So we are in motion, but some of the enhancements
are really, really cool, so let me show you.
A Sunbeam Tiger with the upgrade that I am doing
would take a Holley four-barrel carburetor.
If you get a Holley
self-tuning sniper EFI set up,
I call that way better.
So this is something I have always wanted to try on a car.
Again, it's self-tuning, it reads all the engine parameters,
everything electronic and it gives
an incredible fuel-injected experience,
so this is gonna improve the drivability
and fuel economy and this is what was on it
when we got the best power out of it on the engine stand
back in Michigan when Davin built the motor,
so I'm super excited that we're gonna be able to use this
on the engine as it goes in this car.
It's gonna be great for these rallies.
We have a Griffin aluminum radiator.
Wait a minute, wow, that's light.
This is the stock copper brassed one, which worked great,
but wow, that's gotta be a fourth of the...
Oh, there's antifreeze still coming out of it, that's great.
So anyway, we're gonna be using this.
This is a phenomenal performance,
cooling upgrade to do with it,
and Griffin makes
a Tiger specific model,
so as you can tell, it's got everything in the right place,
but it's light and it's gonna work out really, really well.
Griffin and Evans Coolant have a really cool partnership
and we've been introduced to them.
There's no water in this.
It's a waterless coolant and it really increases
the headroom of the cooling capacity of the system.
I'm about ready to start swapping parts over.
Now, I've ordered a couple of things.
They're still on the way in.
My EdelBrock F4B manifold actually shipped up
to Michigan to get machined.
So it's not back from the shop yet.
So I'm ready to get started.
Let's start moving parts across.
I think we're gonna, I'm really interested to see
exactly the condition of the clutch in this one too.
And we'll see about that
and we'll flip 'em around and move everything over.
So, working good, here we go.
(upbeat music)
Always try to put the bolts where they came from.
Five-bolt bellhousing, pretty cool.
I just need to take the clutch and pressure plate off
because we're gonna using the one
that's balanced with the new motor,
so I don't have to take anything else off
but I would really like to see the condition of this clutch.
This is one that we put in two years and about,
oh, boy, five or 6000 miles ago of good hard rallying.
Yeah, that's a little ugly.
Look how thin that is.
Yeah, that's also got some wear on it.
It may be sorta hard to tell but if you look at it,
it is obviously scored, whew!
That got hot.
This flywheel, again, balance for this engine,
so this new flywheel balance for this rotating assembly.
Davin, our redline rebuilder, so handily wrote
needs pilot bushing with a question mark on it
and my answer is yes because in order for me
to put that top loader back in this car,
I need a bushing just like this one
that sits and basically the snout
of the input shaft of the transmission.
It nestles right in there,
and then everything else goes through.
But if you have an automatic equipped car,
it wouldn't need it.
So we weren't exactly sure
what we were doing with this engine at that time.
All right, some of the stuff
that's gonna come off the front of this motor.
I need this block-off plate for the fuel pump
because there's an electric one on the Tiger.
So this has gotta move over to the other motor
and I need this water pump.
Clunk.
This is a Sunbeam Tiger exhaust manifold.
Notice it points down.
This is more of what you see,
try to get all this in here, on a standard passenger car,
like from the Fairlane that this 289 originally came from,
it goes straight out the back.
That won't work on a Tiger,
that'll run smack into the firewall.
So, anyway.
Hey.
Tiger specific loader mats with a heat shield.
How about that?
That will go right here.
Okay, I think you guys can figure out
that I'm basically taking parts off of one motor,
putting it on the other and doing a little test fitting.
So I'm speeding up some of this stuff.
What I've had to do now is the water pumps
are a little different.
This is an upgraded one.
This is the stock Tiger pump, so it's got bolts
that are a little different,
the gas gets a little different,
so I'm just test fitting them,
making sure that's actually gonna work.
But I did order a higher performance water pump also.
This isn't the final, final of this.
I'm gonna move the valve covers over.
I am still waiting on this intake manifold that I shipped.
Thanks to the United States Postal Service,
it is on a world tour at the moment.
It was supposed to be in Michigan about two weeks ago
and it is still somewhere in North Carolina or DC
or some other town in Michigan.
So I'm not really sure what's going on there,
but we're trying to find it.
And I hope that it's not lost,
'cause that will be a real pain
'cause that was an original Edelbrock 60s F4B manifold
that I was gonna get machined again
to work really well with this EFI.
And to explain that a little better,
what you really need to do is the F4B
and a lot of other manifolds,
they have a plenum that is split.
So half of the air and fuel goes into one half
of the cylinders and half of it goes into another
and it's distributed pretty evenly.
Fuel injection system like the Sniper EFI
really likes to have an open plenum,
like a single plane intake where you've got one big orifice,
it all goes in, and it gets distributed appropriately
the way the engine needs it without that split.
So anyway, we were just simply modifying the F4B
to take a piece of it out so it would breathe evenly across
no matter what, which is pretty common to do.
I'm gonna keep working part to part here
and change the valve covers over.
Another potential concern is the valve train
that's been put into this,
I need to make sure that is does not rotate
and hit the stock valve cover on the inside.
Now, I tested it with these other ones,
but they're not exactly the same as the original Tiger one,
so we're gonna keep moving through this
and I think probably our video will end
somewhere along in here of getting these things
kind of mocked up and waiting
for the rests of the parts to come in, so.
But it's cool, and we're definitely making progress.
Thanks a lot for hanging in there.
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