You just opened a can of worms, splendid.
Although I think that the later 6-cilinder AH's looked better than the
BN1, I always disliked that heavy lump of cast iron under the bonnet.
What about a 6 in line BMW engine. Plenty of those around. I have seen
some very neat conversions using that engine, especially in a Jensen
541S which originally had a 4 liter 6 in line Austin engine. They had to
fit much weaker front springs and alter the shocks but it resulted in a
far better road behaviour and, not unimportant, the steering effort
became much more manageable and pleasant.There should be a few Japs as
well that can supply enough 6 in line grunt. I am not sure if
Datsun/Nissan supplied any lightweight/aluminium 6 in line engines but
if so it would keep it a bit in the family as Datsun more or less
started life producing and developing/improving Austin products. I have
heard that even the early (and perhaps later) in line sixes from
Datsun/Nissan will match up with an Austin gearbox.
Do not forget the lightweight Buick derived Rover V-8 which should fit
without to much bother and also has some relation to Austin.
There are probably some Australian engines as well that are suitable but
I do not know anything of those.
Not only did BMC self destruct, the entire UK car industry did. Only
some assembly from foreign cars left: e.g. Nissan and Mini (BMW) plus
some niche manufacturers mostly in in foreign ownership, e.g. Lotus,
Rolls Royce, Morgan
Kees Oudesluijs
Larry Varley schreef op 6-7-2014 9:57:
> I think it's time that the list had a healthy debate, and some fun. I
> would propose that the only real Austin Healey was the BN1, designed
> by Donald Healey and Gerry Coker. Everything after that was BMC, who
> never made a decent car after the 50's, just using what they had to
> keep producing the cars, that were for some part good ideas, but bad
> design. The mini was a great idea, but mix the gearbox oil with the
> engine? Oh dear. The BN2 with a extra gear in a much heavier gearbox
> that really added no extra performance, then the 100-6 with that
> horribly heavy engine and no more grunt. Why would anyone do that, and
> just ruin the balance of the car? Ok after that they added the 12 port
> head to it, but the sixes at their best are really ponderous in the
> steering department relative to the BN1, which is a nibble well
> balance car. I'm going so far as to use an alloy block in my BT7 to
> turn it back into a descend handling car and restore the weight
> balance. BMC basically self destructed, while the rest of the world
> moved forward, what a shame.
> Cheers
> Larry Varley
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