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Re: [Healeys] Fwd: Austin Healey Restoration

To: Magnus Karlsson <magnuskarlsson@bornet.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fwd: Austin Healey Restoration
From: Derek Job <derek.c.job@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:03:09 +0100
Fantastic work Magnus, both artistically and technically.

Just out of interest. Do you have any idea of the total man hours it took
for the restoration

cheers

Derek
www.healeysix.net

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Magnus Karlsson
<magnuskarlsson@bornet.net>wrote:

> > To Tom, Ron, Bob, Rick, Price and Jim.
> >
> > Thanks to all of you for your interest and very kind comments. I try to
> answer all your questions in one mail.
> >
> > The car was restored from the ground up with many new inner and outer
> body
> panels. The body is all aluminium.
> > The engine has a race aluminium top, 3000 camshaft, forged pistons,
> roller
> rockers, tuftrided crank, aluminium flywheel etc, etc.
> > The carbs are three 2" HD84s on an inlet manifold made in Holland I
> beleive.
> It4s made in order to be able to fit triple HD84s on
> > a LHD car. I bought the manifold from AH Spares. Tubular exhaust manifold
> with side exit silencer.
> > The front brakes are uprated to BJ8 spec with Girling type 16 calipers.
> The
> gearbox is fitted with straight cut gears of Sebring ratio.
> > The overdrive is uprated to race spec. Apart from  these mods I tried to
> build it to full concours standards.
> > The car is seriously fast and drives wonderfully. I would estimate the
> power
> to around 190 BHP and you can feel that the
> > car is very light thanks to the aluminium body.
> >
> > The slide show was made with the Apple program, Aperture.
> >
> > For more images of the car please visit my website:
> > www.concourshealeys.com
> >
> > Thanks again to all of you,
> > Magnus Karlsson
> > www.concourshealeys.com
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