[Healeys] 100 Engine Numbers
Randall Hicks
healey100m at me.com
Sat Dec 7 14:45:03 MST 2019
I was wondering the same thing as Michael.
I have over 3500 BN1 & BN2’s in the AHCA 100 Registry and have no engine numbers starting with H1B. This includes many cars in Australia.
Does anyone have a photo of an engine plate stamped wit H1Bxxxxxx?
Randy
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> On Dec 7, 2019, at 4:38 PM, Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That's really weird Pat.
> As I'm sure you know it was common practice to put an H in the engine number to indicate "High compression" but I've never encountered that with the 100.
> Is there any pattern with respect to "Sold new in AUS"?
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>> On Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 4:02 PM Patrick & Caroline Quinn, <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>> Thank you Bill
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>> It remains a mystery. I have 623 BN1s and BN2s in Australia on my register and of these 71 have engine numbers starting with H1B.
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>> There doesn’t appear to be any pattern and they are spread over BN1 and BN2s.
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>> Hoo Roo
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>> Patrick Quinn
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>> Blue Mountains, Australia
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>> (Where the bush is still burning)
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>> From: Bill Kollar [mailto:wkollar at nycap.rr.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, 8 December 2019 2:05 AM
>> To: John Harper; Patrick & Caroline Quinn
>> Cc: Forum
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100 Engine Numbers
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>> The engine in my 54 BN1 is a 1B******M
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>> I have no idea if this is the original engine (It was about 10 years old when I bought it) but the car was registered here in NY using that engine number.
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>> On 12/6/2019 9:06 AM, John Harper wrote:
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>> Patrick
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>> I have never seen an engine number H1B. Possibly somebody was supplying reconditioning engines but genine BMC engines were marked SRB-19 and then a short number
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>> Best regards
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>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 22:33, Patrick & Caroline Quinn <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:
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>> Hello
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>> The bulk of the engines fitted to the Austin-Healey 100 BN1 and BN2 start with 1B, but some start with the H1B.
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>> Would anyone know?
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>> Thanks
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>> Patrick Quinn
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>> Blue Mountains, Australia
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