Potential Project Car - Should I?

ryanpetit

ryanpetit

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Hi all,

I've been looking for a project car to keep in the garage and tinker on at weeks for a while now. A guy at work is selling his 2000 Tiger E1 with a 2.0 Pinto engine running twin webber carbs.

I'm thinking it could be great fun as a weekend car and should be easy to work on with my amateur mechanic type knowledge. I also think at the price it's been offered to me (£1500) I could sell it on easily if it wasn't being used.

Is this going to be a pain to get kit specific parts for? Also is it going to be a nightmare to move on if I decide I need my garage space back?





Cheers!
 
Why don't you just buy it to sell on and get a better one with the profit??

Thats assuming the cars do sell for the £5k advertised.
 
Joe T said:
I'd suggest doing some research on them before parting with any money. You need to know what you're taking on.
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Since most the running gear is straight out of a Ford Sierra donor car and you intend to do any work on it yourself, unless there is something majorly wrong with the car, at that price surely you can't go too far wrong?

It's worth doing your homework first of course, but it does sound very cheap.
 
for £1500 you cannot go wrong really, even if it needs all new donor parts, these are easily sourced and easy to fit.

In time you can upgrade the engine to a 2.0 zetec, add throttle bodies etc or just tune the pinto lump, even with a stock pinto lump it will be lively and great for autotests or trackdays.

Tiger is a reputable manufacturer, and they have great customer service and parts prices, I even bought my Toyo 888's from them as they were massively cheaper being the tyre they used in their one make series.

In a word, go for it, even if you don't keep it longer than a year it will teach you loads about driving, weight transfer and "feel".

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He clearly knows something about this car which you don't and is counting on you being gullible in order to get shot of it.
 
Even with that being true, what's the value of the kit and its component parts? I've never seen something like that anywhere close to that kind of price
 
[TW]Fox;21481072 said:
He clearly knows something about this car which you don't and is counting on you being gullible in order to get shot of it.
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This has crossed my mind, and I am having a proper drive of it tomorrow to make sure everything tracks strait.

He is about to buy a new Nissan GTR and doesn't seem to bothered about selling it either which way so I am hoping he just wants rid.
 
[TW]Fox;21481072 said:
He clearly knows something about this car which you don't and is counting on you being gullible in order to get shot of it.
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Whilst you may be very wrong, this is the correct viewpoint to hold until you have given it a thorough check. Healthy scepticism never hurt anyone :)
 
[TW]Fox;21481072 said:
He clearly knows something about this car which you don't and is counting on you being gullible in order to get shot of it.
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That's a pretty bold statement and perhaps a little unfair.

Although it doesn't hurt to be sceptical of any bargain, there are plenty of people out there who would rather sell something cheap to someone they know for any one of a variety of reasons (eg to move it on without the hassle of advertising, tyre kickers etc, or to see it go to a good home)
 
Unless there is something dodgy (e.g. it hasn't been registered correctly) then £1500 is an incredibly cheap for this car. It could have a completely blown up engine or a knackered gearbox and it would still be cheap.

In terms of 7-esque cars it's not the best (it uses the entire rear suspension for the Sierra donor which is both very heavy and has pretty awful geometry), but it will still be a lot of fun to drive.

Check the V5 and ensure it's registered as what it is (i.e. a Tiger E1) rather than a Ford Sierra, and if so get it bought.
 
Dogbreath said:
Unless there is something dodgy (e.g. it hasn't been registered correctly) then £1500 is an incredibly cheap for this car. It could have a completely blown up engine or a knackered gearbox and it would still be cheap.

In terms of 7-esque cars it's not the best (it uses the entire rear suspension for the Sierra donor which is both very heavy and has pretty awful geometry), but it will still be a lot of fun to drive.

Check the V5 and ensure it's registered as what it is (i.e. a Tiger E1) rather than a Ford Sierra, and if so get it bought.
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Just checked the V5 and it says Tiger E1. Had a quick drive of it at lunch, and it's great fun....easier to drive than I expected.

It is running a bit rich I think as it was spitting fuel from the carbs but should be easily sorted.

There is another person interested who may be given first dibs as they were interested first, I will find out this weekend. If they don't take it, it's mine. :cool:
 
ryanpetit said:
It is running a bit rich I think as it was spitting fuel from the carbs but should be easily sorted.
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This would normally indicate that it's running lean or the timing is out (or perhaps even the fuel is "off" if it's been sat?)

At £1500 you can't go wrong. Unless it's bent, you're getting a cracking deal IMO.
 
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