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?<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1581549757184"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1581549757331">Mike <br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 at 22:40, Michael Salter</div><div><michaelsalter@gmail.com> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv5583901455"><div><div>Mike, <div>Any comment on the sound of rhe engine with the alloy head?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>M</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5583901455gmail_quote"><div class="yiv5583901455yqt4179785416 yQTDBase" id="yiv5583901455yqtfd23028"><div class="yiv5583901455gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 10:12 AM mike brooks via Healeys, <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote class="yiv5583901455gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv5583901455yqt4179785416 yQTDBase" id="yiv5583901455yqtfd94679"><div id="yiv5583901455m_-4910622834910973526yiv4618770135">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.</div><div id="yiv5583901455m_-4910622834910973526yMail_cursorElementTracker_1581541706389"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5583901455m_-4910622834910973526yMail_cursorElementTracker_1581541706562">Mike Brooks</div><div id="yiv5583901455m_-4910622834910973526yMail_cursorElementTracker_1581541711939">Scotland <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="yiv5583901455m_-4910622834910973526yiv4618770135ymail_android_signature"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv5583901455m_-4910622834910973526yiv4618770135ymail_android_signature_link" target="_blank" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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