Big Healey V8 Mods
Scott Fisher writes about Big Healeys --
> The cars are too important, not to mention too valuable,
> to change them substantively today
Yeah, but there are still a few people around . . .
Actually, a friend of mine is working on a Healey
"Nasty Boy" into which he'll put a Ford 289 (for exactly
the reasons Scott mentioned, it's a little narrower than
most other V8s. However, Scott's correct in that even
MY friends (I do have a FEW!) wouldn't cut up a good Healey.
He's working with one that he pulled out of a salvage yard.
It had been pretty well stripped, no drive train or much else.
It had pretty severe frame damage up front, so that's getting
cut off and a Mustang II front end will be welded on to
replace it. It'll have a complete Ford drive drain, complete
with 9" rear end. Should be fun to drive!
-- Dave L.
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