Many thanks, Barney. Now my curiosity has been piqued. I've been running with
that head for the last year. If I were going to have interference, shouldn't it
have already happened? As fate would have it, the block and head are at the
machine shop now.
Any chance that the Federal Mogul #1307M cam bearings would fit an 18V? Thanks.
Bud
Barney Gaylord wrote:
> At 08:04 AM 12/2/2000 -0500, Bud Krueger wrote:
> >.... Now the problem (?) -- the head has been milled down to a thickness
> of about 3.109". Anybody care to venture an estimate of the probability
> that I'd experience interference between the valves and pistons with a
> standard head gasket installed?
>
> Yup, you're in trouble. The valves won't hit the piston, but the exhaust
> valves will hit the top of the block. With a 1500 engine the intake valves
> will also hit the block, but not with larger bores, unless you use oversize
> intake valves. The exhaust valves always overlap the top of the block with
> any MG B-series engine. The solution is fairly simple though. Check here:
> http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg/mgtech/engine/en1.htm
> and check out CM-201 and CM-202
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude
> http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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Bud Krueger
http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
52TD
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