Larry-
Do you have experience with the crossflow head? A while back I was looking
at the Sportcars International (Steve Darby's) website. He had some dyno
runs done on 3 MGB motors in varying stages of tune. For a stock motor, it
seemed that the crossflow head resulted in a lot less power down low, and
really insignificant gains on the very high end with a stock motor. It
wasn't until the motor was really breathed on (3/4 race cam, very high
compression ratio, and BIG carbs) that the head did much of anything, and
that was still at very high revs. Didn't seem like a good choice for a
street car.
Any comments?
Regards,
Chris Delling
At 01:21 PM 1/3/98 -0500, larry.g.unger@lmco.com wrote:
>I wrote ...
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>>> IMHO, you could achieve the same results by fitting a crossflow head
>>> andit would be 'alot' more reliable.
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>... and Kai replied ...
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>> But, IMHO, a crossflow head just isn't as cool as having a Judson on an
>> MGB. ;-)
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>The Judson is a nice period accessory and does look really 'cool' ...
>especially when fitted to an 'A' so that the finned aluminum valve cover,
>with built-in oiler, can be used ... but, the Judson is an expensive item
>to purchase and maintain when compared to the crossflow head.
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>Safety Fast! ... larry.g.unger@lmco.com
>'61 MGA 1600 MkII
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