CMA and I had The Discussion back in 2013s...You know the one....is the alloy Aussie head that good?
Well, I liked the US Classic Inlines head, and thaught, actually, that the old iron log head chopped and channeled with a high port job would be as good.
But Kate picked up the aluminum head and compared it to the iron Maverick head, and considering the cost and all that, the then Mad Mike 1157 just knew he could make the Aussie X flow the top dawg.
And I rest My case.
CarMichael Angelo has made it work better than I thought he would. And it'll only get tougher, nastier and a whole lot snarlier!
I helped the late Mike Winterboer with the Cross flow/Boss 302 head bolts, the target CFM figures, and the spark plug sizes and giving him the conviction that spending 10 K U$ to an Australian compnay who was already making 4.08" bore spacing non cross flow heads make 375 hp was a Good Idea. That tooling was for the Yella Terra head for the 138/149/161/173/179/186/202 Holden non cross flow head. It was in jepardy due to economies of scale, with Yella Terra's boss Dave Bennett not being able to get a good quality casting at less than 50 heads per year. It got wors with the transition to V8's, which split the tooling costs, and make the economies of scale even harder. The US made or US market, Chinese or Tiwanese built aluminum heads for I6's make good returns, but 2000 dollars US has to yield about I.25 hp net per cubic inch to trigger a responce in a potential T code 200 or L code 250 Ford in line six powered X body or Fox to make it work. Before turboing, Mike Winterboer got 266 flywheel hp and 235 hp in two 200 engines with Clay Smith 264 cams , and when corrected for the auto transimission, and the 18 pounds of turbo boost, Kelly and Wills 250 Falcon would have made just on 300 hp with the same cam and a 4bbl carb. It made over 440 rwhp with boost and a C4 auto. r
Mike made the heads in four casting lots, the first two in Australia, then the next three in the USA, about 160 or so total, in batches of over 50.
You know, they sold 68 used, Aussie import iron 1971-1973 XY and XA 250 M code 170 Horsepower 2-bbl heads in the USA between 2000 and 2006, so Mike B knew it wouldn't be hard to sell 150 brand spankers in six years. But Mike got sick, and the 2008 October meltdown ment he lost his supporting aluminum window contracting busiiness, so it was a miracle he sold 160. He did aluminum head core boxes from CHI Australia for the 240/300 truck motor, and financed some 2-bbl adaptors, Small Ford six rocker covers, HEI ignitions, and headers, as well as a whole raft of Clay Smith cams. Mike Winterboer did just like Jack Clifford did, but also looked at going for the jugular in 2007 with his 6i Fastback 69 250 EFi turbo Mustang
He had excellent help, but his finaces were threadbare, and he kept it all afloat till is death in early 2015.
I'm glad Matt Cox is making it in the USA now, with Vintage Inlines.
The idea I shared with Mike Winterboer was that the Classic Inlines intake manifold should be two - piece.
With one part like this, the old Weber DCOE 40-42-45-48 intake, and the other part like this
with another 1, 2, 3 4bbl intake like this joined to on to it.
In so doing, it left the ITB ideas out in the cold for years. And people still want triple Carter YFA's or Weber ICT's like you put on a air cooled Volkswagen or Army Jeep.
Matt Cox is on the game....shifting the operation back to Motown and people will wanna copy what
CarMichael Angelo has done, but they'll be happy paying 2k for one alloy head that makes the same amount of power, without all the block mods CMA has done.
Performance I6's are sort of like that time Frank Zappa butted heads at the congressional Senate hearing with Parents Music Resource Center. You saw a clean cut due who used to have H-A-I-R talking sassy hardcore smack and doing it good.....People want to tune in just to see what all the fuss is about.
Others like belly buttons.
Yeah, same belly buttons are cool....but only a few. When pictures come from Mikes Garage, everyone wants to see!
, sorry buddy. I missed that you actually reside in New Zealand. My apologies. So the correct term to not offend you is Kiwi, right?
After all,....On the day that they decide to film a Lord of the Rings trilogy in Council Bluffs Ia., I'll listen to every word you say,...And put it on a plaque so as not to forget it.
