[Healeys] Concours BJ8

[Bob Spidell]

I'm not a concours winner--my car is a grizzled road warrior--but some 
things stand out:

Intake and exhaust manifolds should be painted engine color (exhaust 
manifold paint largely burns off)

Not sure what this means: "... replace fuel mesh from carb to carb and 
then front carb to engine ..." (what's a mesh?), but the only fuel 
filters on a BJ8 are the little, thimble-shaped fine screens on the carb 
inlets (not visible)

I've never seen adel clamps on a Healey that weren't owner-installed. I 
bought my car at 64K miles, and it just had the ubiquitous metal P-clip 
on the front choke cable bracket (might have a rubber liner, though)

Bumble bee ignition secondaries were only used on competition cars. 
#1&#2 and #5&#6 wires had O-rings to group the wires. Never seen that 
type of plug cap--with 'Champion'--on a stock car

Servo vacuum line looks to have an inline check valve; original Girling 
servos had one on the servo body only (new ones not available AFAIK)

Hood latch should have about a 3-inch rubber tube on the return spring 
(can't tell what's there from the photo)

Not sure what the purple wire coming through the firewall near the 
voltage regulator is; think I see a blue crimp terminal on/near it

AFAIK, no Healeys came from the factory with Texas Cooler fans


Nice car.


On 4/24/2022 4:46 PM, Alan Wasserman via Healeys wrote:
> Thank you for the quick response, Michael.  I have a number of 
> questions and will await the return of my toy (in about a week) to go 
> over them.  I have the present Concours Guidelines and have studied 
> them extensively, along with Bill Piggotts book Factory Original…, the 
> (green) Shop Manuel and a restoration reference.  Do you recommend any 
> other publications, sites, original marketing lit that I should have 
> and study?  Would love to have close ups of the BJ8 engine to compare. 
>  See, attached, my present engine look (which I know I have to change: 
> 1.  paint heater return pipe (completed since the picture), 2. replace 
> fuel mesh from carb to carb and then front carb to engine, 3. 
>  probably?? strip black paint off front choke wire bracket (there 
> appears to be a question as it was black for the BJ7, I believe and 4. 
> change out the ignition coil for original).  Anything else that 
> strikes your imagination would be greatly appreciated.  THANK YOU!!
>
>> On Apr 24, 2022, at 6:12 PM, Alan Wasserman 
>> <alanwassermannc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello fellow enjoyers.  I have a ’66 AH Mk III BJ8 Phase 2 and am on 
>> the long road to a Concours judging.  I was hoping one or more of you 
>> have won a Concours level and would be kind enough to share some 
>> close up pictures of your engine.  Any help would be appreciated and 
>> thank you in advance.
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>> Alan Wasserman
>> alanwassermannc at gmail.com
>> 732-887-0742
>> www.wassermanstudio.com <http://www.wassermanstudio.com/>
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> Alan Wasserman
> alanwassermannc at gmail.com
> 732-887-0742
> www.wassermanstudio.com <http://www.wassermanstudio.com>
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