Lewis Dove wrote:
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> I have been waiting for someone to comment on this head who has seen it
> installed. I may have missed the comment since I have been off the net a
> few days. Here is a bystander's impression of the beast. I saw the head
> at a meet in Abingdon IL. The owner said it was the first unit sold. He
> received the head the night before, and figured it would take a couple of
> hours to install. He just barely had it together by dawn the next day,
> having worked on it all night. There were unexpected clearance problems
> with the air cleaners and some minor manifold bolt problems, as I recall.
> The casting is beautiful and the installation looked very neat. The
> main problem I could see was getting to the distributer. The heater
> control valve and starter would also be difficult to reach from above.
> the intake runners very neatly missed the plugs, so they would not be a
> problem to remove. If you ever had problems with the exhaust manifold,
> access to it would be no problem, since there is very little left on that
> side of the engine! If I had the cross-flow head, I would install the
> most reliable electronic ignition setup I could find before installing
> it. I think you would have to remove the carbs and manifold to set the
> points. The installation I saw used the standard twin SU setup and
> little circular air cleaners. I understand there is, or will be, a
> manifold for the Weber DGV conversion.
> I only looked at it and talked briefly with the owner; maybe someone on
> the net has more information.
> Lew Dove
The distributor is difficult to get to so I use an Ignitor (magnetic
pick-up with no amplifier to go bad) and for the FUN of it an MSD-6 with
a remote timing adjuster. With the compression i'm running that works
great.
The heater valve comes off the top, back, right of the head. It is a
threaded hole that, with an adapter pipe uses a screw on TR6 heater
valve.
The oil filter is not too bad to get to(upright spin-on is the best).
The head that you saw was a prototype! All the instalation bugs have
been worked out and the head comes with all the studs and stuff to
easily put it on.
Steve
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