[Healeys] Austin Gipsy 4 Cly. Engines

[Patrick and Caroline Quinn]

G'day All

The Austin Gipsy when new came with either a petrol or diesel 2.2 litre
four-cylinder. In other words the Austin A70 petrol engine or the Austin
Taxi diesel engine. On the some that I have seen the engines are
significantly moisture proofed to almost being waterproof for river
crossings etc.

Not quite the same as the AH 100 engine but close. Have a look at:-

http://www.austingipsy.net/Manuals/GIPSY.PDF

As a piece of Healey History some years after the last AH 100 was built
Geoff Healey suggested that the 6-cylinder C-series engine be replaced with
a new 4-cylinder petrol engine derived from the diesel Gypsy engine. It was
to have the same bore as the AH100 engine but considerably less stroke
giving a capacity of 2.5litres but producing around 160bhp in standard form.

Why the diesel? Because not only did it use a nitrited crank as standard,
but it was considerably beefier to handle the stress of diesel combustion.
Therefore perfect for a powerful higher revving petrol engine.

What did BMC do? They rejected GCH's idea and asked Alec Issigonis to revise
the C-series and he came up with the MGC engine. This nearly gave way to the
AH3000 MkIV and what an abomination that would have been. 

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Alan Seigrist
Sent: Saturday, 17 January 2009 10:59 AM
To: Geatros; Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Austin Gipsy 4 Cly. Engines

The austin gypsy used a 1.6 liter flathead, if I am not mistaken.

The 100 motor is the same as the A90 motor (similar to A70 as well)
which was derived from the Austin Princess Limo ( and sheerline?) 6
cyl by lopping off two cylinders.

I don't think they are the same.





On 1/17/09, Geatros <geatros at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Is the Austin Gipsy 4 cylinder engine the same as used in the 100 cars?
Any
> info would be great.......