[Tigers] 260 heads

michael king michael.s.king at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 18:48:24 MDT 2009


>        The 260 heads C40E-A have the larger valves; 1.67 & 1.45.   This
> change was made in Feb 1964.  The valve size is the same as the 289 in this
> time frame.  The 289 went to a 1.78 intake valve April 1964 in the C4OE-B
> heads.
>
>
Wasn't that the slip up in homologation that caught rootes out on the monte
rally where they were disqulaified for having smaller valaves than the
homologation papers said.. they were using the old heads.. not the new
larger valve ones and hence were accused of detuning for reliability?

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Regards

Michael King


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