Hi I got this email in my inbox. Looks like it was delivered to the wrong
person.
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Steve Darby wrote:
> Lewis Dove wrote:
> >
> > 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
> The distributor is difficult to get to so I use an Ignitor (magnetic
> pick-up with no amplifier to go bad) and for the FUN of it an MSD-6 with
> a remote timing adjuster. With the compression i'm running that works
> great.
> The heater valve comes off the top, back, right of the head. It is a
> threaded hole that, with an adapter pipe uses a screw on TR6 heater
> valve.
> The oil filter is not too bad to get to(upright spin-on is the best).
> The head that you saw was a prototype! All the instalation bugs have
> been worked out and the head comes with all the studs and stuff to
> easily put it on.
> Steve
>
Kathy Garneau
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