Jim Fuerstenberg on crossflow heads for A-series;
8port or crossflow heads are also made for minis (and therefore
spridgets). They are repros or remanufactured Arden 8 ports. You
get the head, the cam(which is different than the 5 port style), the
intake, exhaust header and fuel injection setup for 2508
sterling...If you forego the injection, I think it is something like
1000sterling less...then you can install webers or 4 amals. The
head were in alloy or iron, I think you can only get the new ones in
iron.
I have seen this installation once...on a Landar R7 sports
racer(mini powered). It had the twin webers on long manifolds, a
S/C close ratio box and LSD and 14.5 to 1 compression...must have
been fun to drive.
>>I've seen this installation too and it is an awesome
sight. Mini-Mania West has pictures all across the back
wall of "Team Mini Mania" cars, one of which is a Mini
with this head & twin DCOEs. It took me a minute of
looking at it to realize that the carbs were facing
*forward* on this car, and did not appear to be the
type of installation that only utilised one of the
venturis. Hmmmmmm. Apparently it is pretty potent.
cheers-
Daren "My checkbook says 5 ports, but my heart 8" Stone
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