Check with Kent Lacey. In one of the Healey Mags there was an article where
Kent put a 260/289 Ford V8 in a Healey 100. The car looked terrific. The
character of the car was preserved, gauges, interior, the whole 9 yards.
Good luch with this project.
Max1961 BT7
--- On Wed, 1/6/10, HealeyRick <healeyrick@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: HealeyRick <healeyrick@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Healeys] Oil gauge pipe thread size.
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 2:13 PM
The "design brief" of my "Nasty Boy" has been to follow those early V8
conversions I used to see in Hot Rod in the '60s, the days when someone could
take their slightly used Healey to Max Balchowsky's shop with $500 for a
quick
infusion of go juice. The exterior and interior will remain stock while the
engine bay is going to look like some lucky hot rodder stumbled upon a HiPo
Mustang engine just after blowing his Healey six. Kind of like this period
look: http://www.britishv8.org/MG/GeorgeSnively.htm I'm going to keep the
original Healey gauges, adapted to the Ford smallblock. I plan to run a
braided stainless hose from the Ford outlet to an AN adapter to the steel
pipe
of the oil gauge connection. I'm assuming it's a BPT? Can anyone tell me the
thread size, BTW, its a BJ7.
Rick
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