There is still one genuine Healey 100S AHS 3908 (ex Jensen) that has been restored in Christchurch
Mike Sexton has built a replica 100S which is very accurate and a fantastic example of what can be achieved.
There is still one genuine Healey 100S AHS 3908 (ex Jensen) that has been restored in Christchurch
Mike Sexton has built a replica 100S which is very accurate and a fantastic example of what can be achieved.
You say crossflow but all I can see on opposite side of head is spark plug'sOriginally Posted by Roger Dowding
Maybe you need the thread title changed Roger - Austin Healeys! There's enough material around to keep it going. I'm sure Steve could manage that for you - though he is busy.
A Healey thread sounds good to me.
I found these two photos in the Moss archives taken by Paul Debois if that is of interest to you "Healeyites"
A 100S motor.
(Note the modified chassis brace below the hood/ bonnet support rod. )
A 100M engine.
(Ken Hyndman )
Last edited by khyndart in CA; 03-17-2016 at 07:47 AM.
I think Mr Dowding is mistaken.......there were no cross-flow heads on Austin Healeys.....not from the factory anyway.
I cannot see cross-flows, but some 5 port heads with ports on pushrod side and others with ports on non pushrod side, these appear to be an eight port version.
Quote from my !00S information:
The 100S engine featured a Harry Weslake-designed aluminium
'single-port' cylinder head with reversed manifolding and it became
unique to the 100S – (total production of only 50 or so customer cars,
plus just the handful of Works cars). So in effect, this was a bespoke
engine – and a good reason why the 100S has been so rarely
replicated.
I found some more Healey 100S information in our Moss archives from 1955. I hope they can be read ok.
( Ken Hyndman )
Last edited by khyndart in CA; 03-18-2016 at 05:23 PM.
ERC, Yes I must, I tried to change the First Post but doesn't do the Heading, and I have 100's more Healey photos going back to the mid 1970's in NZ, and from two trips to the USA in 1982 and 1988, plus in England on the 1982 trip, some posted elsewhere [ a few ] but would be better here.
Will PM Steve as it is a great idea, thanks Ray ..
Steve if you are reading this can you do it !! thanks.
Roger D..
Kevin, yep got that wrong, but they did move the manifolds inlet and exhaust to the other side so a very different head, somewhere in my Geoffrey Healey books [ 3 ] and Donald Healey books [ 2 ] there will be the reason. I know that LHD Hundreds got bloody hot for the driver as the exhaust was under your feet, 100S solved their problem but not for RHD 100S owners.
AMCO72, yep as just posted got it wrong, I meant that the head was very different as shown by BMC BOY and others, means you guys are following this thread though, cheers.
Any input is appreciated, Roger D..
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[QUOTE=Roger Dowding; they did move the manifolds inlet and exhaust to the other side so a very different head, somewhere in my Geoffrey Healey books [ 3 ] and Donald Healey books [ 2 ] there will be the reason. ]
Roger, I thought what I entered on Post # 113 explained the reasons for the Weslake head design or did I miss something ?
Yes, I am following your thread also !
KH
Last edited by khyndart in CA; 03-18-2016 at 05:44 PM.
[QUOTE=khyndart in CA;51860]Great stuff, most informative, allway's loved them, what gearbox, diff etc, did they use on S model's.
Kevin,
Here are some specs on the 100S from 1955.
The 4 speed gearbox was the same BMC design that was used in the BN2 model. It did have a special close-ratio gear cluster.
Ratios were ; first, 3.08; second, 1.91; third, 1.33 and 4th was direct. No overdrives were fitted. Rear end was a spiral bevel type with a standard final drive of 2.92 to 1. Alternative ratios were available.
(Ken Hyndman)
Last edited by khyndart in CA; 03-18-2016 at 09:59 PM.
[QUOTE=khyndart in CA;51860]All good Ken, didn't read the fine print, about the pushrods and better flow of the head with the manifolding changed over..
Where do you keep all the stuff you post, must have a big Man Cave !!, cheers Roger
Roger,
It certainly helps to work at a place like Moss Motors in Goleta, CA. The company has been around since 1948 and there are many cupboards of books, magazines, blueprints, newspapers etc. It is like working in a automotive museum and getting paid for it !
I feel very blessed.
Ken.
Hi Ray, are you saying that the 100S in the first photo is a replica? Because that is a genuine 100S - it's lower grille makes it distinctive amongst 100Ss. You photographed the same car at Goodwood 5 years later.
The car was first owned by a guy in the USA called Vincent Sardi (http://www.georgeellis.com/100). After a number of owners (http://www.racingsportscars.com/chas...HS%203507.html) it went off the radar and was discovered by Bill Lillibridge, who restored it and, during his ownership, shipped it to NZ at the encouragement of someone high up in the AHCC at the time (around 2004 by the look of it). It hung around NZ for about a year, while being offered for sale internationally for (IIRC) USD $250,000. To begin with the NZD was worth 50 US cents, making it a half million dollar car (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/n...jectid=3549133).
By the time it sold, the NZD had strengthened and the buyer had negotiated the price down - my recollection is that it ended up selling for the equivalent of NZD $350,000. I (like several others) got to store and drive it. Nothing I've driven since comes close in terms of cost!
New Zealand Classic Car magazine even did an article on it: http://magstore.nz/products/nz-class...-164-august-04
Hi Alan. Wow! I assumed that the pic was in fact Mike's car (with the under grille) but if Ross's pic is Mike's car, then my first pic must have been the original. I wasn't aware it was the same car in the Goodwood car park, despite the lower grille.
I knew Mike was building a replica 100S and assumed (wrongly it seems) that at the Ellerslie show, that was his and must therefore have been a replica.
I was talking to John Holmes from TACCOC (shown in that first pic!) recently and mentioned to him that it is so difficult these days to accurately annotate photographs, as you see a car in the street pass you by, you snap a pic, then you can never tell whether it was a Westfield Eleven or a genuine Lotus. John's comment was that the more Lotus badges, the less chance of it being genuine...
Thanks Alan for that. Now I have to shift the pic from my 'replicas, recreations and specials' category and into Austin Healey.
then you can never tell whether it was a Westfield Eleven or a genuine Lotus. John's comment was that the more Lotus badges, the less chance of it being genuine...
Which is why mine is labelled as Tina Lotus (This is Not A )
Thanks to Steve, and ERC, thread name is now more purposeful, in view of my recent content,enjoy..
and another Healey shot..or two.....
My 1965 Sprite,Westmere 1974
a Curve on the road to Snowmass in 1982, full of Healeys ..
Mark Donaldson AH 100 and a Sprite 1989 Ardmore Reunion
Not A- Healey but an FL1, Hire Car version of a London Taxi, Mt Albert 1973, powered by the same basic motor of the Healey 100, just the A70 size, 2.2 not the A90 size..2.7 litre
my Sprite at Mangere Town Centre Gymkhana, Ross Hollings was there too in a Mini Cooper.. 1974
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