[Healeys] Mystery casting number on Austin 6 cylinder engine

Peter Dzwig pdzwig at summaventures.com
Sun Dec 5 05:01:05 MST 2021


Richard,

see here:

<https://www.ahexp.com/forum/the-100-six-forum.5/100-6-cylinder-weslake-head-numbers.183672/>

It doesn't address your *specific* number but I guess that the answer is
in line with what it says there namely that it's a Westlake head.

Regards,

Peter

On 05/12/2021 01:26, richard mayor via Healeys wrote:
> What I thought was an Austin Healey 3000 engine has a casting number on
> the side of the block 12B266.    It has the early style Austin block
> with the tachometer drive housing.  The boss for the engine tag is in
> the same place as the 3000 engines.
> 
> I looked at a couple of early 3000 engines and the casting numbers on
> them are AEC881.
> 
> Does anyone know what engine this is?
> 
> Richard
> 
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Dr. Peter Dzwig


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