[Healeys] Thanks for all the help

[Bob Spidell]

Nice!   But won't you miss the understeer?

On 12/12/2019 6:09 PM, richard mayor wrote:
> Good eye!  Its actually a ' 79 280Z motor.  I wanted to use SU HD8s 
> with this swap because fuel injection would not look right.  The 
> intake runners are 240Z. I married those to a narrowed BJ8 log 
> manifold and voila.  Initially I was concerned about well it would run 
> as compared to fuel injection. I was really surprised. It runs 
> fantastic. And with the engine about 200 lbs lighter than the Austin 
> lump it is much better balanced.
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:25 AM Bluehealey <bluehealey at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bluehealey at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     That’s very tidy Richard.
>     What engine are you using? Is it a 240Z?
>
>     Alan - from my iPad
>
>     > On 12 Dec 2019, at 03:28, richard mayor <boyracer466 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:boyracer466 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > 
>     > The 1960 BT7 that I have been working on is not concours.  I
>     can't go into details right now but here's a photo of the engine
>     compartment.
>     >
>     > <DSCN4470 (1).jpg>
>     >
>     >
>

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