<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Seems to me I remember Michael Salter had an article about the 100-6 blocks not having as much meat for over boring as the later 3000 versions.<div>Surely that would be a factor?</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen, BJ8<br><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 20, 2023, at 2:53 AM, Graeme Molony <gmolony1@bigpond.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div>If your going to go down that path and throw away all the parts from the
block acquire a new head etc. why </div>
<div>don’t you bight the bullet and acquire both an alloy block and head from
DMD Australia parts from the </div>
<div>Healey Factory here in Melbourne Australia contact <a href="http://www.healeyfactory.com.au/">www.healeyfactory.com.au</a> I’m sure
Robbie</div>
<div>Rowland and his guys would love to hear from you.</div>
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<div>Then you would have something really special I believe there have been a
number of the engines exported</div>
<div>to the USA in completed Healey Factory restorations and I’m sure the guys
at the factory would be only too </div>
<div>happy to provide you with references.</div>
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<div>Good luck whatever you decide to do. The DMD engines are pretty special
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Molony<br>( BJ8 )</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="healeys@autox.team.net">Alan
Seigrist via Healeys</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 20, 2023 12:09 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com">simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com</a>
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<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Westminster block</div></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr">A westy block is identical to a later motor, the only difference is
the head. If you want to convert, you need to get a new head.
Honestly, for most levels or road tune, there isn't a huge amount of difference
and one nice thing about the westy head is it is less thirsty with the fuel, and
if I recall there isn't much penalty on torque, most of the penalty is over
3,000 rpm, which for a road car really doesn't matter much.</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 3:21 AM Simon Lachlan via
Healeys <<a>healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div class="m_7018874007519212316WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal">For ages I’ve been thinking of buying a 3000 engine and
doing it up to a fairly high spec. Nothing too clever, definitely a road car
version. But I always hang back when I see the prices of whole
engines.<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">And, it strikes me, that one will probably have to ditch
most of the moving parts so why buy them in the first place?<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">Maybe buy a block and add the rest as and when. Some from
eBay, some from the usual suspects……<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tell me please:- am I right in my assumption that a
Westminster block is as near as makes no difference to a 3000 block? And that
the main differences in the engines would be in the moving parts and the
head?<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">ie isn’t a Westie block as good a place to start as
any?<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">I ask this as there is a very presentable looking block up
for sale near me.<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">Simon<u></u><u></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> </div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Support
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