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pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Fri Mar 09, 12 8:01 pm

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pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Fri Mar 09, 12 8:07 pm

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Mar 09, 12 8:26 pm

Yes I remember that one too, another cool race car!

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Fri Mar 09, 12 9:10 pm

remember that one too , think the heads were made or designed over here ??
got a different mag feature on that car somewhere , will dig it out & scan it if anyone is interested

jerry · Post by **jerry** » Fri Mar 09, 12 10:55 pm

Post it up Steveo all good stuff

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Sat Mar 10, 12 10:01 am

I think Weslake made a lot of stuff for mopars back in the day.Dave Wilson has a set of Weslake heads for the 426 Hemi,,,thay have never been used ...He told me they were made for NASCAR but when the program was dropped the heads were left on the shelf.....Stock rocker arms do not fit ,that is why he still has them....

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Sat Mar 10, 12 10:31 am

pete walton wrote:I think Weslake made a lot of stuff for mopars back in the day.Dave Wilson has a set of Weslake heads for the 426 Hemi,,,thay have never been used ...He told me they were made for NASCAR but when the program was dropped the heads were left on the shelf.....Stock rocker arms do not fit ,that is why he still has them....

oh never knew Westlake made them heads Pete , remember reading about those years ago , that were much wider better flow & bigger valves , yes stock rocker gear does not fit , read a artical many years ago , that this guy in the Us built up a hemi with these heads to put in his superbird ,think there was only believed to be 3 complete heads at the time .

there was also another attempt at redesigning the hemi head nothing to do with a nascar one , buy company over here , not sure it was west lake , but it was a disaster , the head was a 71 pro stock head , ports were too small to flow enough air , teams had to switch back to a 70 head , if i remember correctly , even Dandy Dick could not get them to work ,
all the above info , is just going by memory , so could remembering stuff not 100% normally happens , if any one is interested in this info too , will have a look for it & post it up

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sat Mar 10, 12 5:23 pm

I remember in the late '70's or early 80's there was a fair bit of prototype stuff floating about, probably all ex. Weslake.

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Sat Mar 10, 12 5:45 pm

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Sat Mar 10, 12 8:48 pm

jerry wrote:Post it up Steveo all good stuff

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Sat Mar 10, 12 8:58 pm

pete walton wrote:

oh right D port heads , they are not the ones i was thinking of , these are mid 70s i think ,
will dig out info i previously mentioned , if anyone is interested , but could take a while

pete walton · Post by **pete walton** » Sun Mar 11, 12 9:44 am

Nice one Steve, i love all that ole crap

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun Mar 11, 12 10:48 am

Pete, are those Dave's heads? if so what's occurring with those 3.5 X15 Fentons?

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Sun Mar 11, 12 11:21 am

Blue wrote:I remember in the late '70's or early 80's there was a fair bit of prototype stuff floating about, probably all ex. Weslake.

Yes, they sold off a lot of exotic stuff in the 80's when they moved from auto to aero engines. They still service heritage auto stuff though. Based here in East Sussex.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Sun Mar 11, 12 12:01 pm

Blue wrote:Pete, are those Dave's heads? if so what's occurring with those 3.5 X15 Fentons?

Now that is a keen eye!