Michael, Not upset - far from it - Bit humour - just interested to forecast
the future of my head - could be exciting to bet on it ......
I would like an alloy head by the way, so this may be the excuse that I
needed?
But right now, my car os running REALLY well, so a alloy head would be a
disruption to say the least - but who knows - I may like it.
Robert N. Blair Yellow 65BJ8 rnbmail@yahoo.com
--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Awgertoo@aol.com <Awgertoo@aol.com> wrote:
> From: Awgertoo@aol.com <Awgertoo@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Alloy Head
> To: rnbmail@yahoo.com, healeys@autox.team.net, cnaarndt@gmail.com
> Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 5:13 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 10/16/2009 7:42:02 P.M. Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> rnbmail@yahoo.com writes:
> Curt, As
> you seem so sure - WHERE will mine crack???? What
> will the
> warning
> signs be?????
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Now don't get upset Robert--Curt could be wrong
> and your head might never
> crack, though the fact that at least two
> suppliers have gone to all the
> trouble and development expense to make and market
> aftermarket aluminum heads
> for a car which had a total production run of only
> 15,000 units, (I am now
> including only the BN1-BN2 Healeys, not Austin
> applications) perhaps only
> 50% of which are still on the road, does say
> mouthfuls....
>
> Most 100 heads crack between 2 and 3. The
> warning signs might be
> seepage under the head. Or you could simply blow
> a head gasket:
> perhaps a loud moise, steam out the exhaust, immediate
> overheating, no
> power. It will be apparent that something radical is
> wrong!.
>
> My 100's head cracked between 1 and
> 2--in my case I think it was
> more a matter metal erosion caused by some
> predetonation and assisted
> by some head warping as there was a definite
> lack of
> metal across the rather narrow bridge. It was not
> so much a crack as a
> piece of metal missing that blew the gasket out. I
> was about 1500 miles
> from home and luckilyh found a good welder who built
> the metal back up with
> nickle rods, and after I had the head skimmed I made it
> back home, but I felt
> the handwriting was on the wall and bought a DW stage
> 2 head and
> matching tubular exhaust.
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