[Healeys] Healey 100 Mods

Wed Feb 19 08:07:09 MST 2025

I agree entirely with Kees. Further, I did install the AH Spares front disc kit on my former BN1, which used the big brake calipers from a late BJ8. The results were more than worth the cost and effort. Nice being able to stop—and the rear drums on Healeys, including the thinner ones on the early 100s, work fine as they do far less work than the front brakes. But this was roughly six years ago, so don’t know whether the current kit is as good. 

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On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 8:01 AM, Kees Oudesluijs via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

Mods to make it more enjoyable, more reliable or, more importantly, safer to drive are a must if you want to drive in modern traffic. Improved braking and cooling are the most obvious ones.
 Kees Oudesluijs

 Op 19-2-2025 om 04:32 schreef Bob Spidell via Healeys:

 Sooooooooooooo ... no one's installed the AHSpares front disk kit?

 On 2/18/2025 5:02 PM, Tom Mitchell wrote:

I love absolutely love driving my Healey, I’ve driven from Michigan to North and south Carolina, to Vermont to south Dacoda,  to North Carolina, back and forth to Kentucky and beyond.  I’ve done a few reversible upgrades.  Alternator, additional fuses, halogen headlights Toyota transmission, third brake light, even (gasp) cruise control. I want my kids and grandkids to be able to drive it.  It’s needs a new or rebuilt frame, maybe one day. In the meantime I’m driving the heck out of it. I’m in my early 70s, love working on it, but the fatigue of driving it is costing me. I have Mieka seats (not installed) so maybe (my wife doesn’t like them).  Everything is (so far) easily reversible. 

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  On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM Robert Markovich via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

  I believe in keeping my Healey ESSENTIALLY original. But here in America, I like driving it, often to gatherings 100 or more miles away. New radial tires add safety and handling while looking mostly original—and old as they are, Healeys still handle surprisingly well, especially on a smooth road. And alternator will charge a battery far better than the standard generator while a modern fuel pump is likelier to keep working—two examples of upgrades that maintain the original feel of the car while reducing the chance of being stuck on the roadside. So I maintain my belief in at least a few sympathetic upgrades to allow my Healey to spend more time on the road and less time at a service station. 

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On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 1:14 PM, josef-eckert--- via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

 Bob,
 Your Austin-Healey is not a modern car and never will be again and so handles like an 70 years old car. That´s what it should be and I am really happy my 100 handles "vintage" what makes it even more attractive to me. My point is, this modifications are like a face lifting to a human beeing. It doesn´t make things better, even worse as it makes an stylish old lady doubtful.
 When it comes to selling, leave the car original and you would get a better price compared to a modified bitser, at least here in Europe. Here in Europe you rarely would drive an Austin-Healey over long distances anymore, even its fitted with the newest gimmicks nobody really needs.

 Josef Eckert
 Germany

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 Betreff: [Healeys] Healey 100 Mods
 Datum: 2025-02-18T18:29:33+0100
 Von: "Bob Spidell via Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
 An: "Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>

 The current discussion re: "What should us old f***s do with our Healeys 
 when we're too decrepit to drive them and the kids and grandkids 
 (mostly) want nothing to do with them"--and related to a couple ads I've 
 gotten recently from AHSpares--got me to thinking. I've largely kept the 
 100M my dad found in the local newspaper that we restored together 
 original, but now I'm thinking, pursuant to that conversation, why not 
 make some 'tweaks' to improve its drive-ability, since it won't end up a 
 museum piece anyway? In particular: the brakes suck. They're all 
 new/refurbished, and stop well enough for drums, but pull badly and no 
 amount of adjustment makes any difference (my dad's '65 Mustang, with 
 all drums, was even worse, and I advised the guy who bought it to 
 install front disks since it was to be his teenage daughter's car). 
 'Spares also hit me with an ad for an upgraded Panhard kit, which 
 supposedly improves handling--though, besides the brakes I have no 
 issues with its handling--but, why not (since I'll be shipping across 
 The Pond anyway)?

 Anyway, anyone got experience with either of these mods, esp. the brake 
 kit (the rotors look a little thin compared to my BJ8's)? FWIW, I'll be 
 72 this year but can still drive well enough to wrangle a 480HP 
 Mustang--my wife might disagree--and I'm considering re-upping my pilot 
 medical (which, if I'm successful, should tell me something about my 
 fitness).

 bs
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