[Healeys] Radiator shovel

[Patrick & Caroline Quinn]

That's interesting!

Wonder if the pre-production cars had anything? The BN3 certainly didn't
when it I bought it in 1974, but there is a lot less room between its
radiator and the grille.

Thanks

Patrick Quinn

-----Original Message-----
From: sentenac.rw at gmail.com [mailto:sentenac.rw at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2019 10:38 AM
To: Patrick & Caroline Quinn
Cc: 'Michael Oritt'; 'Austin Healey'
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Radiator shovel

Just a minor addition:  Early BN1s did not have the vertical divider.
#724 has no vertical divider and no holes in the horizontal part where
such a divider could be mounted.  The horizontal piece is made of
aluminum and is stamped with '724' like the bonnet.

-Roland

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:11:08 +1100, you wrote:

>Hello Michael
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>In all the four-cylinder production cars there is a single horizontal and a
single vertical metal piece that serves the main purpose of ensuring that
the air that comes in through the grille goes through the radiator.
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>That the vertical piece also prevents being able to see from one wheel
opening to the other is purely secondary.
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>Have a look at this page from the AH Spares website and it's numbers 68 and
69 on the right hand side.
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>https://www.ahspares.co.uk/big-healey/inner-body-panels-ibp101-to-ibp286a/
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>There is no such similar horizontal fitting on the production six-cylinder
cars so that a lot of the air that comes through the grille escapes below
the radiator and serves no worthwhile purpose. 
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>Hoo Roo
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>
>Patrick Quinn
>
>Blue Mountains, Australia
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>From: Michael Oritt [mailto:michael.oritt at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2019 9:52 AM
>To: Patrick & Caroline Quinn
>Cc: Robert Begani; Austin Healey
>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Radiator shovel
>
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>Patrick
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>I have never seen anything re a "shovel" either standard or optional to
100's
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>Can you expand on this?
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>i was always of the impression that the purpose of the vertical divider was
esthetic to prevent one's seeing through the opposite wheel opening when a
car was viewed from the side.
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>Best--Michael Oritt 
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>On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 4:54 PM Patrick & Caroline Quinn
<p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
>Hello
>
>Such a fitting was standard to the four-cylinder cars including a vertical
>piece directly behind the centre of the grille.
>
>During the late 1980s I made up a similar fitting to the BN3 which made a
>big difference. The Healey Duncan has a similar fitting for channelling the
>air upwards and through the radiator.
>
>Hoo Roo
>
>Patrick Quinn
>Blue Mountains, Australia
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Robert
>Begani
>Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2019 3:22 AM
>To: eyera3000 at gmail.com; 'Healey Email list'
>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Radiator shovel
>
>The pictures did not have my comments attached,
>
>!. Trim the shovel to fit the frame.
>2. Shows the way the it should fit to the frame with the flange pointing
>down.  However, I cut the valve hole wrong and had to flip flop it.
>3. Note the lip should be pointing  down so you can install the mounting
>screws to the frame from underneath and remember to get the hole for the
>radiator drain valve large enough to install it.  
>4. Painted the same color as the car.  Looks good and really funnels the
air
>into the engine compartment so you do not over heat down to 30-40 mph.
>5. Should have been a factory install.  I recommend the Shovel baffle for
>all Healey cars.  There never is too much cooling air flowing through the
>engine compartment.  When I was test driving my Healey after the rebuild
>without the tunnel, I could feel the air flowing through the engine
>compartment like a tornado.
>
>Bob Begani
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:05 PM
>To: eyera3000 at gmail.com; Bob Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com>; Healey Email list
><healeys at autox.team.net>
>Subject: Radiator shovel
>
>Here are pictures of what I fabricated from the picture I got from someone
>on the list which I no longer have  


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