[Healeys] Re Denis Welch 100 head

[Alan Seigrist]

The tinny sound will mellow out with age as the muffler fills up with
carbon....

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:25 AM mike brooks via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Michael - I'm afraid I can't really tell. The old exhaust had had a
> "temporary"(!!!) repair done at Affordable Mufflers when we lived in
> Houston. That was 14 years ago and it had started leaking about the time
> the head cracked. So we now have a brand new stainless exhaust from AH
> Spares. It's much quieter and slightly tinnier, but I guess this is mostly
> to do with the ss exhaust. What have you noticed with the aluminium head?
>
> Mike
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> On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 22:40, Michael Salter
> <michaelsalter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mike,
> Any comment on the sound of rhe engine with the alloy head?
>
> M
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 10:12 AM mike brooks via Healeys, <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> I fitted a standard Denis Welch head with their head gasket last year. I
> used the original studs and didn't change anything else. I'm very pleased
> with the result. All the torque is still there and it really feels like
> it's supposed to. I've had my BN2 for 16 years and try to keep it as
> standard as possible. I only changed the head because of a very nasty crack
> between cylinders 2 and 3 and the list advice was to get a new head.
>
> Mike Brooks
> Scotland
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