I have been waiting for someone to comment on this head who has seen it
installed. I may have missed the comment since I have been off the net a
few days. Here is a bystander's impression of the beast. I saw the head
at a meet in Abingdon IL. The owner said it was the first unit sold. He
received the head the night before, and figured it would take a couple of
hours to install. He just barely had it together by dawn the next day,
having worked on it all night. There were unexpected clearance problems
with the air cleaners and some minor manifold bolt problems, as I recall.
The casting is beautiful and the installation looked very neat. The
main problem I could see was getting to the distributer. The heater
control valve and starter would also be difficult to reach from above.
the intake runners very neatly missed the plugs, so they would not be a
problem to remove. If you ever had problems with the exhaust manifold,
access to it would be no problem, since there is very little left on that
side of the engine! If I had the cross-flow head, I would install the
most reliable electronic ignition setup I could find before installing
it. I think you would have to remove the carbs and manifold to set the
points. The installation I saw used the standard twin SU setup and
little circular air cleaners. I understand there is, or will be, a
manifold for the Weber DGV conversion.
I only looked at it and talked briefly with the owner; maybe someone on
the net has more information.
Lew Dove
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