The "206" and the "295" heads are close to identical, one was Spridget and one
MG1100 if I remember correctly. They are both great for small block engines.
If you put a 1275 head on a small block then you need to "eyebrow" the block
or the valves will clash the block.
Do the 295 head and be happy.
Bill
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:22:24 -0500
> From: spritenut@comcast.net
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Spridgets] Holy Headache
>
> So I have decided to get a head done for the Holy Sprite.
> It is sporting a 10CG 1098 now that smokes and it has a semi miss on
> cyl #3.
> I changed the plug, it sparks everything is OK and it has 140 psi
> compression, not great but not horrible.
> So why the miss at all speeds.
> If you guys remember when it fired up it had a burbling sound we thought
> might have been carbs, but it is always there and if you pull #3 wire,
> nothing changes.
> So I popped the head off that other 1098 (10CC) on the garage floor, it
> is a 12G-295. I thought that was the pre smog 1275 head?
> Was this head used on late 1098s?
> If a 1275 head works on a 1098, I have a few ready to go. This will save
> a few bucks in machine work.
> Hey, I'm a 1275 guy, these 1098s drive me crazy ;) as I found out you
> have to take the 2 inner nuts all the way off the intake where on a 1275
> you just loosen them and slip the intake (and carbs) off without
> fighting with those 2 nuts. Different intake ears.
> My son has my Vizard book so I can't look up head numbers for a 1098.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
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