sunbeamtiger.co.uk

I'm a newbe to the site from the states.
I've had my Tiger since 1971 and bought it when I was 21 so now you know I'm a oldddddd fart.
A little bit of the history of the car, used to road race and auto cross the car, then restored it and did the car show thing. Then in 1994 went to the drag strip and made its first 1/4 pass 14:30's and then it was all over finally after what 17yrs reach my goal of having a real 9 second street car and I mean a real street car, even drive it to church .
Best time so far is 9:46 @ 146.
380 CI sbf fuel injected Man O War motor
Power gluide trans
3:23 Dodge 8 3/4 rear
Twin Turbo's 57's
725 RWHP

Hi and welcome aboard.

Your Tiger sounds like a serious weapon.
Any chance of some pics?

Cheers, Martin.

martin172 wrote:Hi and welcome aboard.

Your Tiger sounds like a serious weapon.
Any chance of some pics?

Cheers, Martin.

I'm a little challange on the pic thing.
If you go to British V-8 go to Jerry's Porsch pictures. Also you can go to UTUBE and entry" Jerry's Twin Turbo Tiger"

LOL, I was only looking at that You tube vid a few days ago.
It's no slouch that's for sure.

Welcome to the site Jerry!

I'd like to see you pull-up outside your church in that monster tiger of yours! Lots of Hell Marys I think??

Ash wrote:Welcome to the site Jerry!

I'd like to see you pull-up outside your church in that monster tiger of yours! Lots of Hell Marys I think??

You would never think its a 9 sec. street car, new technolgy is great the car idles like a pussy cat but when it gets up on boost what a Tiger

Like to add my welcome Jerry.

I can only underline the comment by Ash!!

For members seeking a speedy connection to images and footage of this awesome machine, here you go:

http://www.britishv8.org/Other/JerryPorsch.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOG4ysT_fk

Graham
STOC Editor

Thanks for posting up those posts for me!!!
Thanks for the welcome

Welcome Jerry, and funnily enough it was after seeing your car on British V8 many years ago that inspired me to do something "different" to my car as yours still looks Quintessentially English I managed to find somebody in the UK that's mad enough to do my discrete "mods"

love them Turbos near the back axle

On You Tube there is a good video of me against a Vette in the finals.
"PSCA AZ Final Round Street Challenge J.Porsch"

Hi Jerry, and welcome. I have seen the car on U Tube, and it is very impressive. Now we can learn how you manage to get all that power to the ground. I see in the pic you still run leaf springs. What mod's have you done

Hi Jerry,

I would like to see some pictures of the underbody of your car, especially with those turbo's up at the rear end. Sounds very interesting.

Thanks, Robin.

Mal wrote:Hi Jerry, and welcome. I have seen the car on U Tube, and it is very impressive. Now we can learn how you manage to get all that power to the ground. I see in the pic you still run leaf springs. What mod's have you done

Just some ole stock leaf springs and traction bars
Now for the truth, I had a freind of mine make up a traction bar that copy's the Cal-Trac setup. I've broken the top spring a couple of times but I just went down to the spring shop and had them make me up another one nothing fancy or high tech back there. It just seems to work
I've scaled the car and found out its 49%front and 51% rear and the car weighs 3035 with me in the car, also I think having a six point roll bar that is tied into the frame helps alot.
Anymore I don't launch the car much harder then 3500 on the two step and 60' foot times are in the low 60's high 50's tired of tearing stuff up.

gtsmrt wrote:Hi Jerry,

I would like to see some pictures of the underbody of your car, especially with those turbo's up at the rear end. Sounds very interesting.

Thanks, Robin.

I wish I could post some better pics of the rear mount turbo's but to dumb.
Really nothing fancy just have 3" exhaust that runs back to the turbo's then turned the flanges up and mounted the turbo's making sure there was room for the filters between the leaf spring and body.
Trust me I'm not a fabiactor(or speller) and I did most of the piping myself with my sponser doing any welding that had to do with the struture of the car like in front of the leaf spring cut it out to get the piping up higher and also where the pipe goes through the frame in the front we welded a 3" pipe there and also rewelded up the frame where we fit the 3"exhaust.

Twin Turbo Tiger wrote:

gtsmrt wrote:Hi Jerry,

I would like to see some pictures of the underbody of your car, especially with those turbo's up at the rear end. Sounds very interesting.

Thanks, Robin.

I wish I could post some better pics of the rear mount turbo's but to dumb.
Really nothing fancy just have 3" exhaust that runs back to the turbo's then turned the flanges up and mounted the turbo's making sure there was room for the filters between the leaf spring and body.
Trust me I'm not a fabiactor(or speller) and I did most of the piping myself with my sponser doing any welding that had to do with the struture of the car like in front of the leaf spring cut it out to get the piping up higher and also where the pipe goes through the frame in the front we welded a 3" pipe there and also rewelded up the frame where we fit the 3"exhaust.

Jerry,

Hey there, its michael, i posted those pics for you a while back from TEAE or CAT.. you want me to link them here, i still have them on my webshots.