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The intake and exhaust manifolds, and the oil pan are not Healey. The cam is on the opposite side and the intake and exhaust have a much longer route through the head. It might be from an Austin sedan.
 
We had one like that in high school auto shop. It was the full car, gear box and differential. Forties Chevy, I believe. It was fun to play with.
 
Hmmm - I glanced at it quickly this morning - it came up under Austin Healey 3000 engine on eBay UK. My Healey is a BN1 nasty boy so I am not at all familiar with the six cylinder Healey engines. A stovebolt Chevy in the UK would be a rarity although I guess it could have come from the US Forces in the UK....
 
That engine looks like an Austin A90/AH100 stretched from a 4 cylinder to a six cylinder.

EDIT: Looks like the Jensen 541 had an engine that also looked like a stretched A90, but with a few differences to the engine cutaway shown. Apparently, it was originally used in the Austin Sheerline and was designated DS5. DWR even have an aluminum head for it.
 
Well I'm certainly not interested. My engine leaks enough oil already and I don't think the drip tray for that one would fit under the car! Must cost a fortune in oil to run that.

AJ
 
CraigC said:
That engine looks like an Austin A90/AH100 stretched from a 4 cylinder to a six cylinder.

EDIT: Looks like the Jensen 541 had an engine that also looked like a stretched A90, but with a few differences to the engine cutaway shown. Apparently, it was originally used in the Austin Sheerline and was designated DS5. DWR even have an aluminum head for it.
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The 541R & the Princess I worked on at Austin-Healey West, San Francisco (late 70s era) were both Austin 4.0 litre engines. The '56 Jensen was factory fitted with 4-wheel disc brakes & K/O disc wheels. Cutting edge stuff for the mid-50s.

I agree, while some of the block architecture is similar, it's not even remotely close to the Austin engine used in the Healeys.
 
Randy Forbes said:
The 541R & the Princess I worked on at Austin-Healey West, San Francisco (late 70s era) were both Austin 4.0 litre engines. The '56 Jensen was factory fitted with 4-wheel disc brakes & K/O disc wheels. Cutting edge stuff for the mid-50s.

I agree, while some of the block architecture is similar, it's not even remotely close to the Austin engine used in the Healeys.
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During my time at Austin Healey West, I don't think I ever saw what was under the hood of the Princess. Went for a few rides in it, but that was about it. Do you happen to know what year it was?
 
CraigC said:
During my time at Austin Healey West, I don't think I ever saw what was under the hood of the Princess. Went for a few rides in it, but that was about it. Do you happen to know what year it was?
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I had two (2) numbers pop into my head, '64 & '67; it could be neither one, but I do remember that it was "newer" that I expected it to be.

My first experience in the Princess was at the annual west cost Austin-Healey meet (Rendezvous?) in 1978. Ray & Jo-Anne, Doug Rossi/Sharon Flaherty (secretary at AHW), Ray's crazy lawyer friend (Dickie?) from Sacramento & his wife, myself and a date were cruising some backroads around San Rafael on our way to the banquet dinner. We were all dressed up and the theme from "The Sting" was playing in the cassette deck. Heady stuff; we were in an altogether earlier time.

I wound up using the Princess to commute to the shop for about a week, while piecing my '67 MGB back together (26th & Dolores to Shipley St). I got pretty good with its 4-speed column shift & RHD, but what I most loved about it was the lever-operated driver's window__you could chop someone's arm off with that sucker!
 
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