G'day Kent
Why anyone would want to turn a well running BN2 into a cantankerous BN3
is quite beyond me.
Not only would you have to modify the front cross chassis rail and X
brace but then you you would have to find a Healey saloon radiator and
then alter the engine mounts, cut away this and cut away that and then
get stuck into the firewall with a large hammer to make the bloody
engine fit. Then it comes to making the gearbox fit and shortening the
tailshaft plus finding a set of solid steel wheels.
If that's not all you would then have to find a crafty panel shop that
would add the two extra seats in such a way that it looks like it was
done by a couple of drunken mates on a Saturday arvo.
Believe me it's been tried before and going on what a few of my friends
say, that the DHMC must have stood back and looked at what they did and
never made another one.
Regards
Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia
1947 Healey Duncan Saloon
1954 Austin-Healey 100 BN3/1
-----Original Message-----
From: Kent McLean [mailto:kentmclean@mindspring.com]
Sent: Sunday, 18 July 2004 12:45 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Update to Healey 100 Restoration Site - DMD engine
Larry Varley wrote:
> The initial test run of the DMD engine produced the following -
> Horsepower 295 at 6000 RPM Torque 300 ft/lbs at 3500 RPM
Hmmm... I wonder if I could turn my BN2 into a BN3.
Nah.
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Kent McLean
'56 100 BN2
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