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Re: lemans racing heads

To: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
Subject: Re: lemans racing heads
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 08:23:41 -0800
>Last week someone mentioned that the factory works lemans cars had a
>special head,  anymore info on these what would it take to make one or
>change a car over to one, or do I just need to quit dreaming now.
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You can quit dreaming now.  These were fitted to 1147 engines and were 8
port light alloy ones.  They were also different than the 8 port head
fitted to later model 1296 engines.  So unless you have access to a
foundry, machine shop etc . . .

Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net

72 V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
70 Spitfire (long term project)

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