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[Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100

Subject: [Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100
From: happolk at cox.net (Hap Polk)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:33:14 -0800
References: <20110115042019.27752.qmail@server278.com>
Yes, Some guys back then considered the Healey to be just another kind of
Willys. Small, light, simple--good for the drag strip.

-----Original Message-----
From: healeymanjim at hansencc.net [mailto:healeymanjim at hansencc.net]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:20 PM
To: Hap Polk
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100

hap, probably because the chevy six was dirt cheap.  i used to pay five
bucks for a stovebolt back in the fifties, so probably 25-50 bucks in the
60s and 70s.  some guys do not care about chopping up a car and the healey
was not that valuable then.   hjim



>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Hap Polk <happolk at cox.net>
>  To: 'Jonas Payne' <JPayne at ThorCon.net>, healeys at autox.team.net
>  Subject: Re: [Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100
>  Sent: Jan 14 '11 18:54
>
>  Jonas,
>  Thanks for the info. I surely do not know of all the early 60s
> conversions  going on. Having owned a stovebolt Chevy 6, (Paid the
> dealer $100 for the  car with a guarantee good 'til the driveway) I am
> having a hard time see why  someone would want to put a stovebolt 6 in
> a Healey 100. Because it was  lying in the garage? As you probably
> know the stovebolt Chevy had splash  lubrication of the rod
> journals--not want one would want in a performance  engine--and it was
heavy.
>  Hap Polk
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Jonas Payne [mailto:JPayne at ThorCon.net]
>  Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:33 AM
>  To: Hap Polk; I Erbs; healeys at autox.team.net
>  Subject: RE: [Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100
>
>  I have seen a couple 100's on ebay with Chevy 6's.  One with a "blue
flame"
>  the other with a regular stovebolt.
>
>  The latter was a real hatchet job.
>
>  Jonas Payne
>  PBR
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