[Healeys] Engine Block Casting Number

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Scott, the engine casting and stampings is chart is interesting and useful; but I believe the BJ8 Phase 1 and BJ8 Phase 2 entries can be a bit misleading.

It's true that the lowest 29K engine number was 101.   But that engine did not go into the lowest BJ8 Phase 1 chassis number (25315).  The actual engine that was installed in chassis 25315 at the factory was 29K/RU/H571.  Engine /H101 was originally installed in chassis 25331.

At the other end of the Phase 1 scale, the highest chassis number was 26704 (which had engine /H1174).  There were cars between the lowest and highest Phase 1 chassis numbers that received engine numbers as high as /H2123 (so far recorded).   The highest engine number for Phase 1 cars can only be determined when all the engine numbers for those cars are known (i.e., by more people than the BMIHT staff).

 

The lowest Phase 2 chassis number (26705) received engine /H1713.  The highest chassis number (43026) got engine /H17504; but the car that was actually completed on the assembly line last (43000) got the highest engine number (/H17631).

 

I realize the chart wasn't constructed with all that in mind, but I believe most people would associate the lowest chassis number with the lowest engine number, etc., and it wasn't done that way at the factory.   

 

Steve Byers

HBJ8L/36666

BJ8 Registry

AHCA Delegate at Large

Havelock, NC  

 

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of J. Scott Morris
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 12:44 PM
To: Mark Donaldson; 'Bob Spidell'; 'Healeys'
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Engine Block Casting Number

 

Good Day to all. Do enjoy the Festive Season.

 

Attached is my file of engine castings and stampings.  It is not complete and has periodic updates.

 

--Scott Morris; Simcoe, Ontario, Canada - Keep Smiling, Murphy Lives

 

On Friday, December 9, 2016 5:19 PM, Mark Donaldson <ardmorebusiness at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

 

This is the part number on my BJ8 block.

 



 

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From: J. Scott Morris [mailto:jstmorris at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, 10 December 2016 5:12 a.m.
To: Bob Spidell; Healeys
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Engine Block Casting Number

 

Hi Bob;  If you put ' "Austin Healey" 12B766 ' into goggle search, you will find that the block casting number 12B766 corresponds to a BJ7 - BJ8 block.

 

--Scott Morris; Simcoe , Ontario , Canada         - Keep Smiling, Murphy Lives

 

On Thursday, December 8, 2016 10:24 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

 

Listers,

Anyone know what engine the block casting number 12B766 corresponds to 
(or where I could find such info)?

TIA,

Bob

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