18-04-2019, 11:11 PM
To day, I inspected one of our new members AAk tourer., to obtain/recover the number. Interestingly, it was his first car for a couple of years, early 1960s, then he sold it on. It re-appeared last year in Holland, and he managed to buy it back, but on Dutch registration plates.
During the inspection I noticed that the cylinder head was a bronze colour. Suspecting a special paint job, or bronze plating, we attempted to file through the plating to the metal underneath. To no avail, the head seems to cast from bronze! The head looks exactly the same as a conventional low compression head, 18mm spark plugs over the piston, convention water outlet on the head.
Casting numbers: 19.7.32 [casting date?], 1A38: AF2: 1.2.
Robert the owner was convinced, this is the same head that was on the car when he first owned the car. His Father taught him how to "de-coke" the engine: he distinctly remimbered when cleaning the head face, that it was bronze.
I seem to vaguely remember bronze low compression heads and super charged engines. Can any of our Guru's out there, shed any light on the subject?
John SWA7C
During the inspection I noticed that the cylinder head was a bronze colour. Suspecting a special paint job, or bronze plating, we attempted to file through the plating to the metal underneath. To no avail, the head seems to cast from bronze! The head looks exactly the same as a conventional low compression head, 18mm spark plugs over the piston, convention water outlet on the head.
Casting numbers: 19.7.32 [casting date?], 1A38: AF2: 1.2.
Robert the owner was convinced, this is the same head that was on the car when he first owned the car. His Father taught him how to "de-coke" the engine: he distinctly remimbered when cleaning the head face, that it was bronze.
I seem to vaguely remember bronze low compression heads and super charged engines. Can any of our Guru's out there, shed any light on the subject?
John SWA7C