Kit car page
The car started out as a standard kit from Tiger fitted with a 2 litre Ford Pinto engine and twin sidedraught carburetors, and in this form it produced about 100bhp at the wheels. It took a year from delivery of the kit until the car was on the road and fully legal.
Click here to read a summary on the build and SVA Test
Current Specification
Where modifcations have been undertaken there are links to the relevant section.
| Chassis | Standard Mk1 (floor pedals & High tunnel) Modified brake pedal |
| Bodywork | Standard Tiger Cat |
| Engine | Ford Pinto 2 litre Block with standard crank and pistons Mildly ported cylinder head with Holbay high lift cam, uprated valve gear and vernier pulley Rolling road figures 146bhp @6500rpm |
| Electrics | Emerald 3d Programable ECU, with bosch distributor Mangnecor Spark plug leads Lucas LRA100 alternator Uprated Halogen headlamps |
| Fuelling | Twin Delloroto DHLA 45's with 36mm chokes connected via dual throttle cable linkage |
| Gearbox | Standard Ford Type 9 unmodified from doner car |
| Front Suspension | Standard Sierra upright with tiger top arm Fully adjustable Track Control Arm and poly bushes Quick rack fitted in place of standard rack |
| Rear Suspension | Standard Sierra back end Normal Tiger mini dampers and coil springs replaced with Spax coilovers |
| Front Brakes | Standard Sierra calipers with EBC Green Stuff Pads Tarox G88 groved discs |
| Rear Brakes | Standard 9" Sierra drum brakes |
| Interior | Fully retrimmed in Maroon leathercloth with Grey carpet and transmission tunnel Custom made seats replacing standard pad seats Full trimmed and fitted dashboard |
| Instruments | Full instrument set including Electronic Speedometer, Rev Counter, Fuel Gauge, Temperature Gauge, Oil Pressure Gauge | Windscreen | Electrically heated windscreen with self timer function |