[Healeys] Engine HP

[Eric (Rick) Wilkins]

Here's a picture I took in San diego a little over 10 years ago of  
Gary Black's triple HD8 engine room:

http://www.ewilkins.com/wilko/pics/g_black_healey.jpg
[url=http://www.ewilkins.com/wilko/pics/g_black_healey.jpg]Gary  
Black's Engine[/url]

Wilko
San Diego

On Jul 30, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Gary Black wrote:

> Thought the group might be interested in the figures from a dyno  
> run on
> my latest race engine. Peak horsepower is 230 at 6400 RPM (HP was  
> still
> increasing at that point but afraid to run the engine above 6400).  
> Peak
> torque is 202 at about 5000 RPM. The engine has headers, triple HD8
> carbs, Denis Welch aluminum head, domed pistons with compression ratio
> about 10.8 to 1, high lift full race cam (don't know the cam specs, my
> engine builder is keeping that a secret), Mallory dual-point
> distributor, stock block and crank, stock valveltrain.