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Re: RE: tips and advice

To: Robert Duquette <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>, Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: RE: tips and advice
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:12:41 -0500
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References: <20050302144934.KPCJ1796.tomts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@mxmta.bellnexxia.net> j22FEmoc024558
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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