We’ve now finished the 250-2V cylinder head and fitted it to the Ford Falcon. The head has been fully ported and polished with big valves, competition double valve springs and exhaust port divider. The head was skimmed to get the compression ratio before being fitted. Next step is manifold fabrication for twin 2″ SU carbs.
We’ve started building the 327ci Chevrolet small block V8 for the Cheetah. The cylinder heads are getting the full port and polish treatment with large competition valves. The entire rotating assembly is currently getting balanced but includes high compression forged racing pistons, billet flywheel and triple plate paddle clutch. The engine will be fed through four Weber 48DCO carburettors on a cross ram manifold. Of course everything is held together with ARP bolts and studs. We are all looking forward to seeing this thing run. It’s gonna be loud.
Mike Haigh’s Ford Falcon is getting treated to a new cylinder head. The standard cast iron cylinder head found on the old Ford inline sixes has a terrible port and inlet arrangement with a ‘log’ type manifold cast onto the head. Back in the day the Australians got wise and cast their own heads with a separate inlet manifold and a standard 6 port arrangement. The head is otherwise identical and bolts straight on. It only took a year to source the rare Australian 250-2V head and get it shipped to the UK but it’s here, it’s been ported, polished and has big valves. We’ve machined a divider for the central siamese exhaust port and once it has been skimmed will be fitted to the bottom end. We are all taking bets as to what it will be worth in BHP.
Last year we built a new race engine for Sam Polley’s MGB. Sam competes in the CSCC’s Swinging 60’s and at last weeks Silverstone meeting Sam finished 3rd overall and was the quickest MGB in the field. For more info on historic race engines send us an email.
We’ve finished another TR engine for a local customers TR4A. This should make for a really nice road engine with oversize pistons and liners, lightened flywheel and a fully balanced bottom end.
