Is High End Audio catchin' up with you all?

....speaking of 'going off-topic (which I'm shocked hadn't happened earlier...)...

A 'beam Tiger was a hoot to see IRL...

"Cute droptop....is it fu.....WTH!" 

"I guess it is....*LOL*"

Watched an Elan suck the doors off a Stingray 'Vette.... I'd bet the 'Vette owner did some homework to find out WTH that car was....Refrigerator White, innocent as yellow snow..... ;)

The Tiger would have survived if only they'd opted like Shelby to clean slate' the entire car.  The existing frames weren't up to dealing with v8 anything....
...and I'd bet the guys back at the factory weren't amused when putting them together....   

I can't bend my arm that way!"  was likely common....

@waytoomuchstuff ...*L* Nahh, you're quite 'normal' 'bout your Tiger...

...and your 'apparent age' makes you a Perfect 'Sleeper'.
Go gittum'....*nasty L*

...owned a Spitfire for a time....It was nice to be able to sit on a front tire while rolling pushrods on a pane of glass to check for the bent ones.....*S*

Obviously, none of you had the temerity to get one of these and spend so much time fixing, towing and pushing it that you could work on it blind folded:

I took it from stock and added a 1/4 race cam with a 40mm Weber downdraft carb on matching intake manifold from FAZA Racing (run by Al Consentino of Florida). The carb linkage that came with it didn't match so I had it and the stock one cut and welded together so it would work (front half of one and rear of other). Also had the FAZA headers and ran straight pipes out the back.

With over 30 additional HP I terrorized Triumphs, MGs and smaller Porsches out on Mulholland Dr. That Webber was the easiest carb to work on and swapping air and fuel jets took just a few minutes. Everything was tuned by ear. Those simpler days were the best.

All the best,
Nonoise

@asvjerry , you must have had a mess in there for them to use a metal valve. Most now use a flexible ring that folds up and we deploy them by catheter, no cracked chest.. Has your defibrillator gone off yet? Lots of fun. People do not realize what that is like when it fires. It can be entertaining until the docs get the sensitivity adjustment right. I really wanted a either a Volvo 1800 or 911 when I was a kid. Had to settle for the 911.

@tomic601 , you better watch out! I'm one of those short people. My favorite Randy Newman line is, " God can make you tumble. God can make you turn. God can make you overflow. But, God can't make you burn." He was referencing the Cuyahoga river fire. My favorite RN song is, You Can Take Your Hat Off. 

@barbaramoriggan , Yes, absolutely. Your back is under very little stress on a bike because your arms are supporting it. The Neo 2 is a real hoot.

@jerryg123 , The air cooled motors have a raspiness  missing in the watercooled units. You can still get one in the Scrambler models, 1100 cc! The Italians have a passion for motors everyone else can't seem to match. Somehow they always manage to make them sound right. Listen to a Fiat 500 Abarth. Little sucker sounds like it would tear your throat out. Just listen to a Duc at idle. Only the Italians can concoct a symphony like that. (desmodromic valve train)

Okay, just one more off topic/on topic comment for audiophile/old car guys:

(goes back to the early 90's) The Sunbeam Alpine has solid lifters that sound like a broken Singer sewing machine at cruising speeds.  Then, I remembered I had a can of Acoustical Magic material that I used to dampen the vibrations of turntable platters on hand.  So, I cleaned up the inside of the aluminum valve cover, coated it with this stuff and cured it in the oven for a couple of hours.  

After reinstalling the valve cover and going for a test ride, the exhaust note(s) were louder than the sound of the lifters.  A much improved driving experience.  

And, yes, audiophile/car guys CAN successfully mention audio tweaks AND car tweaks in the same sentence.

@nonoise Must have been somenoise emitted from the exhaust of your project car?  fyi- I used a Webber downdraft for the blow through turbo set up on my Alpine.  Removing the choke, substituting plastic floats for the brass ones (they collapsed under pressure), rejetting, and filling in a few gapping holes did the trick.