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Re: Aluminum Cylinder heads

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Aluminum Cylinder heads
From: Chris Thompson <ct-mg@cthompson.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:26:31 -0600
Larry Colen (lrcar@red4est.com) wrote:
> I noticed that Pierce has aluminum heads both with and without the
> smog ports. Are there any advantages of one over the other?  I had
> been thinking of using the smog ports to mount Exhaust Gas Temperature
> probes, as they come off right at the exhaust valves and I'd get one
> per cylinder rather than sharing cylinders 2 and 3.

Larry,

I asked this question some time ago, as, I believe, the later smogified
heads also have the larger exhaust valves. I asked whether this was a good
thing, a bad thing, or irrelevant. I don't recall getting a definitive
answer.

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Chris Thompson
1974 MGB Chrome Bumper Roadster




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