[Healeys] Radiator shovel

Wed Oct 30 21:20:25 MDT 2019

Patrick,
   Mine also did not have the vertical divider. It was #598 and all stock. I'll look through some old photos and see if I can find some when I had the grill out of the car.
Steven Kingsbury

On October 30, 2019 at 4:50 PM, "Patrick & Caroline Quinn" <p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:

That's interesting!

Wonder if the pre-production cars had anything? The BN3 certainly didn't
when it I bought it in 1974, but there is a lot less room between its
radiator and the grille.

Thanks

Patrick Quinn

-----Original Message-----
From: sentenac.rw at gmail.com [mailto:sentenac.rw at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2019 10:38 AM
To: Patrick & Caroline Quinn
Cc: 'Michael Oritt'; 'Austin Healey'
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Radiator shovel

Just a minor addition: Early BN1s did not have the vertical divider.
#724 has no vertical divider and no holes in the horizontal part where
such a divider could be mounted. The horizontal piece is made of
aluminum and is stamped with '724' like the bonnet.

-Roland

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:11:08 +1100, you wrote:

Hello Michael

In all the four-cylinder production cars there is a single horizontal and a
single vertical metal piece that serves the main purpose of ensuring that
the air that comes in through the grille goes through the radiator.

That the vertical piece also prevents being able to see from one wheel
opening to the other is purely secondary.

Have a look at this page from the AH Spares website and it's numbers 68 and
69 on the right hand side.

https://www.ahspares.co.uk/big-healey/inner-body-panels-ibp101-to-ibp286a/

There is no such similar horizontal fitting on the production six-cylinder
cars so that a lot of the air that comes through the grille escapes below
the radiator and serves no worthwhile purpose.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn

Blue Mountains, Australia

From: Michael Oritt [mailto:michael.oritt at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2019 9:52 AM
To: Patrick & Caroline Quinn
Cc: Robert Begani; Austin Healey
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Radiator shovel

Patrick

I have never seen anything re a "shovel" either standard or optional to
100's

Can you expand on this?

i was always of the impression that the purpose of the vertical divider was
esthetic to prevent one's seeing through the opposite wheel opening when a
car was viewed from the side.

Best--Michael Oritt

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 4:54 PM Patrick & Caroline Quinn
<p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:

Hello

Such a fitting was standard to the four-cylinder cars including a vertical
piece directly behind the centre of the grille.

During the late 1980s I made up a similar fitting to the BN3 which made a
big difference. The Healey Duncan has a similar fitting for channelling the
air upwards and through the radiator.

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Blue Mountains, Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Robert
Begani
Sent: Thursday, 31 October 2019 3:22 AM
To: eyera3000 at gmail.com; 'Healey Email list'
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Radiator shovel

The pictures did not have my comments attached,

!. Trim the shovel to fit the frame.
2. Shows the way the it should fit to the frame with the flange pointing
down. However, I cut the valve hole wrong and had to flip flop it.
3. Note the lip should be pointing down so you can install the mounting
screws to the frame from underneath and remember to get the hole for the
radiator drain valve large enough to install it.
4. Painted the same color as the car. Looks good and really funnels the
air

into the engine compartment so you do not over heat down to 30-40 mph.
5. Should have been a factory install. I recommend the Shovel baffle for
all Healey cars. There never is too much cooling air flowing through the
engine compartment. When I was test driving my Healey after the rebuild
without the tunnel, I could feel the air flowing through the engine
compartment like a tornado.

Bob Begani

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:05 PM
To: eyera3000 at gmail.com; Bob Begani <rfbegani at gmail.com>; Healey Email list
<healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Radiator shovel

Here are pictures of what I fabricated from the picture I got from someone
on the list which I no longer have

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