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Subject: [Healeys] cylinder head questions
From: bspidell at comcast.net (Bob Spidell)
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:07:55 +0000 (UTC)
I couldn't get from Chris' page what the 'solution' is; mill out the plug hole, 
or the inside of the chamber? 

Bob 

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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 

----- Original Message -----


Chris & Mark, 
Thanks for the information. I checked my two 960 heads & they both have the 
plugs recessed in the combustion chamber as per Chris' information & 
photographs. 
If this is a machining mistake it is still a mystery why they never corrected 
it. And why the BJ8 is the only model a greater advance. 
Gary 




Chris and Gary, 
also have an original works head. It too has the AEC 721 number 
ast into the top. 
s an aside, I was told long ago that the heads were made 'after 
ours' when production had stopped for the day. They were apparently 
ade from recycled diff. heads that had been melted down. 
've not done a side-by-side comparison of the 721 and the 960 or 
lue-printed either of them, but I have been told that there is also a 
light difference in the squish area in the heads, the 721 being 
onsidered the better designed one. 
ne of our racers here in NZ actually replaced the 960 on his BJ8 with 
he 721. He reckoned it gave him a marginal improvement in 
erformance. I don't know how scientific his analysis was . . . that 
as back in the 70s. 
Cheers 
ark Donaldson 
uckland. NZ 

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