Alan,
A company makes an aluminum cross flow heads for the B with a choice of
carburattor options. It's still probably cheaper to use the datsun head.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Bent <ajb@squirrel.com.au>
To: Victor Laury <vlaury@earthlink.net>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Brit Transplants
> A company over here was selling these new cylinder heads for Minis that
bolt
> straight onto the original mini block. They were an alloy head twin cam 8
valve
> crossflow design with belt drive and a choice of either twin DCOEs of EFI.
Cost
> was somewhere in the region of A$4000 for the conversion kit. I saw a
photo of
> someone with a Datsun 320 that had one of these twin cam heads bolted onto
the
> Datsun E series block, it went on with very little modification.
> It was popular over here for MGB owners to use the heads of the 31 series
Nissan
> Cedric sedans, Cedrics have the H series engine which is a stroker G
series
> engine. The Cedric heads were a huge improvement on the MG design.
> Alan Bent - Flaxton, Queensland, Australia
> 1966 Fairlady SP311-01060 - * 1965 Silvia CSP311-70231
> 1966 Fairlady SP311-00925 - * 1964 Fairlady 4-SP310-00134
> 1964 Fairlady 4-SP310-00134 * 1964 Cedric Wagon 4-WP31-50620
> 1963 Bluebird P312-3-32984 * 1963 Bluebird P312-3-39741
> 1963 Cedric G31-3-07024 * 1964 Cedric Wagon 4-WP31-51579
> 1969 Super Six G130-005415 *
> Early Datsun Homepage http://www.geocities.com/olddat
> Nissan Silvia Homepage http://www.angelfire.com/ns/silvia
> Planet Cedric http://nav.to/planetcedric
>
> Victor Laury wrote:
>
> > I've read quite a bit on the subject and to our Marque's credit, Datsun
> > parts are prized by the Brit crowd.
> >
> > The heads from the "E" and "J" Motors are gifts from the gods to sprites
and
> > Minis. You'll find more than a few Austin sedans and others with "R"
motors.
> > But, The BEST! The thing that will really make you smile, is the Laments
> > from the TR-6/GT-6 crowd that they can't fit the Z's L-24/26/28 motors
under
> > their bonnets to replace their Leland boat anchors! Poor folks! After
being
> > denied championship glory, again and again by SRL Roadsters. Can we all
give
> > them a collective sympathetic "AWWW" ? :-)
> >
> > Victor
> > 70 SRL 31113136
> > Los Angeles
> > http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=123073
> > SoCalROC http://www.ameri-eagle.com/datsun/
>
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