7 Port Cylinder Head

Santa forgot to bring me one of these and they're not in the January
sale either.

http://www.minisport.com/mini-sport/...ort-power.html

In message <GrydnVEN56utFw_YRVnyggA (AT) eclipse (DOT) net.uk>, Turbo Jo
<joe (AT) thisaddressdoesntexist (DOT) co.uk> writes

Santa forgot to bring me one of these and they're not in the January
sale either.

http://www.minisport.com/mini-sport/...ort-power.html

It's a nice head design, but while they were setting up to cast it, why
on earth didn't they produce it in aluminium? After all, you can now
get 12G940 copies in aluminium, so it would have been possible.
--
Chris Morriss

Chris Morriss wrote:

In message <GrydnVEN56utFw_YRVnyggA (AT) eclipse (DOT) net.uk>, Turbo Jo
joe (AT) thisaddressdoesntexist (DOT) co.uk> writes
Santa forgot to bring me one of these and they're not in the January
sale either.

http://www.minisport.com/mini-sport/...ort-power.html

It's a nice head design, but while they were setting up to cast it, why
on earth didn't they produce it in aluminium? After all, you can now
get 12G940 copies in aluminium, so it would have been possible.

Presumably they are using the original tooling to cast these as weren't
they used by the continental works teams during the late 60s?

In message <npCdneD_9uhyJA7YnZ2dnUVZ8qbinZ2d (AT) eclipse (DOT) net.uk>, Turbo Jo
<joe (AT) thisaddressdoesntexist (DOT) co.uk> writes

Chris Morriss wrote:
In message <GrydnVEN56utFw_YRVnyggA (AT) eclipse (DOT) net.uk>, Turbo Jo
joe (AT) thisaddressdoesntexist (DOT) co.uk> writes
Santa forgot to bring me one of these and they're not in the January
sale either.

http://www.minisport.com/mini-sport/...ort-power.html
It's a nice head design, but while they were setting up to cast it,
why on earth didn't they produce it in aluminium? After all, you can
now get 12G940 copies in aluminium, so it would have been possible.

Presumably they are using the original tooling to cast these as weren't
they used by the continental works teams during the late 60s?

It was designed in Denmark by AKM Racing; Minisport bought the design
rights. As far as I know, Minisport have modified the tooling for the
castings, and I'm fairly certain the tooling they are using is new, so
they could have made other alterations to allow for the different flow
characteristics of Cast Iron and Aluminium if they had wanted to.

Perhaps someone reading this with contacts at Minisport might be able to
supply more info.

(The great advantage of this head is that it uses the standard exhaust
manifolds)
--
Chris Morriss