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anyone know anything about that intake manifold is it worth the money ,also do you have to do anything to the carbs
 
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Hmmmm. Pat Ross?
The car looks nothing like the Liege-Rome-Liege cars, apart from being a Big Healey. Lots of mods, but what about brakes?

A BS car, IMO.
 
Rawles is just up the road from me, I am thinking of the upgrade when I pull the engine. A fast road came, a few pounds off the fly wheel, possibly one of those big dampers at the front and the Rawles intake manifold.

:cheers:

Bob
 
I think it's a beautiful machine... appears to be considerable attention to detail. Roger must be an originality proponent... that's fine.. but I love them all and appreciate a well "personalized" Healey. He says the brakes are BJ8's. Let's cut the guy some slack on the "Ross"... unless of course you've never made a error which ended up in a posting... I know I have.

Cheers,
Steve
https://stevesaustinhealey.com
 
This is the ex John Close car. I have seen it in person many times and it is a very nice car indeed. Nothing phoney about it.

The manifold is a DMD from Australia.
https://www.dmdaustralia.com.au/manifolds.html

I have one as well:
https://www.pbase.com/stevegerow/john_close_dmd_manifold
https://www.pbase.com/stevegerow/dmd2inch

Scroll down for the description of the car. It has BJ8 power brakes and an Elgin hot road grind, the tranny is a Toyota Supra - the highest top-geared of the Toyota boxes.

As I recall, the hard top is a factory 2-seater to which he added the rare openable vent.
 
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My DMD wound up costing around $800 by the time I got it imported and paid extra extortion from the freight company.
I installed it on an otherwise stock engine in combo with Kirk headers and the original HD6 carbs and the combination delivered a noticable kick in the pants to my somewhat tired engine. The carbs require only non-slanted float bowls which I got from Joe Curto.
With my stock cam I didn't notice any difference between the HD6 and HD8 carbs.
My website shows the air cleaner mods necessary to clear the rear frame rail. Might be easier with stock air cleaners.
 
HealeyPassion said:
I think it's a beautiful machine... appears to be considerable attention to detail. Roger must be an originality proponent... that's fine.. but I love them all and appreciate a well "personalized" Healey. He says the brakes are BJ8's. Let's cut the guy some slack on the "Ross"... unless of course you've never made a error which ended up in a posting... I know I have.

Cheers,
Steve
https://stevesaustinhealey.com
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Of course I can make a mistake - I didn't spot the brake change. And I agree, it's a very nice car. But when you say you want to replicate the look of a 1960 works car, and produce something in Green and Black with Minilite-style wheels, and get the name wrong, that's when I say BS. Red, White, Wires and Moss would be more like it!
 
The pictures sort of show it, but the car is a nice bluish BRG - I think it is an Aston Martin color. At the time I was planning on the manifold I corresponded with John Close extensively.
 
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