Yes, Some guys back then considered the Healey to be just another kind of
Willys. Small, light, simple--good for the drag strip.
-----Original Message-----
From: healeymanjim@hansencc.net [mailto:healeymanjim@hansencc.net]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:20 PM
To: Hap Polk
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100
hap, probably because the chevy six was dirt cheap. i used to pay five
bucks for a stovebolt back in the fifties, so probably 25-50 bucks in the
60s and 70s. some guys do not care about chopping up a car and the healey
was not that valuable then. hjim
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Hap Polk <happolk@cox.net>
> To: 'Jonas Payne' <JPayne@ThorCon.net>, healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100
> Sent: Jan 14 '11 18:54
>
> Jonas,
> Thanks for the info. I surely do not know of all the early 60s
> conversions going on. Having owned a stovebolt Chevy 6, (Paid the
> dealer $100 for the car with a guarantee good 'til the driveway) I am
> having a hard time see why someone would want to put a stovebolt 6 in
> a Healey 100. Because it was lying in the garage? As you probably
> know the stovebolt Chevy had splash lubrication of the rod
> journals--not want one would want in a performance engine--and it was
heavy.
> Hap Polk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonas Payne [mailto:JPayne@ThorCon.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:33 AM
> To: Hap Polk; I Erbs; healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [Healeys] Compression ratio for a fast road 100
>
> I have seen a couple 100's on ebay with Chevy 6's. One with a "blue
flame"
> the other with a regular stovebolt.
>
> The latter was a real hatchet job.
>
> Jonas Payne
> PBR
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