[Healeys] HEAT SHIELDS

[josef-eckert at t-online.de]

I own 3 Austin-Healeys, two big ones and a Sprite. All three have their original heat shields installed as I believe BMC knew what they had to do for best results. I really believe the Austin-Healey cars were good engineered and don`t need such modifications. Seems other owners feel their Austin-Healey cars are not done by skillful people. There might be better solutions available in modern cars now, but the BMC engineered solutions still work and my cars are running well. So I am still asking myself why should I change to solutions which perhaps bring the running system in my cars out of balance? I would solve a small problem on the one side to have more problems with others. 
My long experiance is, stay with the factory specs and you have no problems. So why change this system to one you don`t know what come out? For those who don`t like their Austin-Healeys as they are, I would suggest to sell and buy a modern car without these shortcomings of classic cars. Classic cars have a soul like the skilful engineers who designed them. These were characters and they are gone. If you take the soul out of the cars they are only old metal.

Josef Eckert
Konigswinter/Germany