[Healeys] Concours BJ8

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Here is a stock engine bay on '66 bought new...other than finned valve
cover (with nuts chrome caps-removed for concours) and Stant radiator
cap, its completely stock with original "fuel mesh" lines. Hank

	-----------------------------------------From: "Bob Spidell" 
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday April 24 2022 6:24:51PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Concours BJ8

 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  wrote: 
 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. 
     Alan Wasserman alanwassermannc at gmail.com 732-887-0742
www.wassermanstudio.com [1] 

     Alan Wasserman alanwassermannc at gmail.com 732-887-0742
www.wassermanstudio.com [2] 



Links:
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[1] http://www.wassermanstudio.com/
[2] http://www.wassermanstudio.com

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