Engine / Tiger ERA sump

Thursday 23rd June

Fitted the fly wheel, I had to file done some washers for them to fit the new lightened flywheel.

Removed the standard inlet and outlet manifolds that come with engine as new.

Then turned my attention to removing the sump and lower crank case to fit the Tiger ERA sump, I should have checked the engine first for oil doh!!!! So quickly retightened the sump bolts and put back upright and drained the oil. Removed the steel sump, then the lower crank case. You have to replace four bolts in two of the main bearing end caps with Silver Top Zetec bolts that have a threaded stud on the top,  steel spacers are added to allow the windage tray to be at the right height.

Went to fit the new modified oil pickup, but have no new gasket to put on it and there’s not one supplied with the kit L so need to take a trip to the motor factors tomorrow, I also need to purchase a clutch alignment tool so I can fit the new clutch and pressure plate.

Also called Tiger today to find out where my tyres are, here there is an issue. Tiger normally supply Toyo T1Rs 195 X 50 X 15 with there kit cars but due to the disaster in Japan these are all on back order and wont be in stock until July sometime. As you read previously, this is now holding me up as need to get the chassis on the ground so I can fit the engine. So had a discussion with Laura from tiger and she suggested I try some local tyres dealers to see what I could get, so I phone around, found one who could get some Pirelli’s for tomorrow, called Laura back and told her the details / amount etc and was told, if I go ahead and get them fitted, scan the invoice and send to tiger, they would then credit my bank account with the amount of money that it cost, you cant get fairer than that J so hopefully will have the engine fitted this weekend.