If you can find one, a 12G940 head is worth it's weight in.... cast
iron! For a hot street motor, it is a really good choice. Needs very
little, if any port work. Just my .02
Brent
Central Indiana AHC
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 9:49:34 -0500, Robert Duquette
<robertduquette@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> PS: don't confuse me with someone who knows what he's doing. :)
> Keep those suggestions coming.
>
> One other thing that I did, was purchase a new MG Metro head on ebay. A bit
>of a mistake. My ported/polished/etc head was cracked and my request had been
>to weld it. Engine builder mentions ( like 2 years later ) that he'd rather
>start from a good core than to do that, but he'll fix mine as a last resort
>and I reluctantly say 'okay' and suddenly I'm at the front of the line. It
>must have been a sore point with him? The MG Metro head 'looks' like the MG
>Turbo head in Vizard's book, and I bought it somewhat blind, then I get a
>reply from David Anton that it is a good head, but somewhat thin walled and
>not suited to 'radical' porting. So, here I sit, wondering, as the head is in
>the mail to me, what the definition of radical porting is compared to what I
>want. The vendor of the head says he's sold a few to some UK mini racer,
>who's name sounded familiar but escapes me now, who likes them. ( Now I
>wonder: Why a few? And I wonder if I should be looking into local cores
>instead. What is the meaning of life? )
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