My 'new" Tiger

G'day Doug,

Been following the "putting right" of your red car, it appears to be such a nicely preserved original. I would like the correct 1" band whitewalls on mine too but the handling, or lack thereof, of the Goodrich Silvertowns is the killer for me. How are you finding it with the crossplies fitted?

Here is B9471713 on contemporary 165/80/13 radials. Thanks to Michael for the pics.

http://www.catmbr.org/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=1624

Cheers, Lance.
 
moonstone SIV said:
G'day Doug,

Been following the "putting right" of your red car, it appears to be such a nicely preserved original. I would like the correct 1" band whitewalls on mine too but the handling, or lack thereof, of the Goodrich Silvertowns is the killer for me. How are you finding it with the crossplies fitted?



Cheers, Lance.
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I've been pleasantly surprised with the whitewall tires. They are better around town and on the highway than I thought they would be. I need to slow down a little for the sharper turns but I'm ok with that since 99% of the driving I do will be around town on the straights. I'm glad I got the tires and would do it again.
 
Have about 200 miles on the car and the tires and am getting used to them. Never drove the car on radials so it's good I don't have the comparison.
 
Interesting how the unmolested examples take on the "lowrider" look after 50 years of spring settling.

The link to my car above shows the ride height somewhat greater than I remember, but it was reassembled with one rubber insulator per side atop the front coils. Doug, no doubt you have seen this many times when repairing a Hillman in the past. I also had to"spread" the spring towers slightly while the crossmember was out due to the sag that occurs after carrying around that lump of cast iron from FoMoCo......

I always assumed this was how they were supposed to be but the Forest Green example pictured below, which was recently dismantled for the first time, was missing the insulators on both sides and appeared to have been assembled at the factory that way. Since the car was down slightly on the l/h/f we fitted one insulator on that corner which evened things up and took the slight rake out of the ride height.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has come across the "delete insulator option" in original cars before? The parts book shows them but the pic appears to be lifted straight from the Alpine manual.
 
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