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401Ambo
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Posted: May/19/2023 at 8:46am |
I have two different versions of the heads. I was told AMC had made castings first and the race team took over due to poor quality and had them made at a foundry on the west coast. These were supposed to be good. Don't know if there are any foundry marks to tell the difference. I had mine in the shop and they said they were good. They all have markings by Hank the Crank on them.
Here's a close-up of the intake. |
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PAGAENT
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Some of the features of those injectors look like Kinsler, they used a lot of identical hardware as Hilborn.
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Ken_Parkman
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I have a set of the heads. There are a couple of versions of the castings and mine are a fair amount different than the above picture. These were ported by Hank The Crank back in the day. Spent a lot of effort trying to use them, but there was no way - the castings are full of fissures.
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401Ambo
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The intakes are modified but from what? The bridge between banks have been welded.
And one set of heads has welded exhaust ports. |
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Javelin_GT
AMC Addicted Joined: Feb/15/2008 Location: Colorado Status: Offline Points: 1066 |
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Intakes are interesting......don't look like Enderles or maybe modified Enderles??
The Weaver dry sump pump and bracket are mounted the same as the 71+ Trans Am Javelins. I have one of those brackets.....bought last one Weaver has before they went out
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jpnjim
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Beautiful,
thanks for posting it!
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71 P-code 4spd Javelin/AMX
some Jeeps and some Fords |
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401Ambo
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The #11 car has the iron engine in it and the #73 car has the aluminum engine. The three engines in the background are all aluminum. They are at the Ray Skillman museum in Greenwood Indiana. It's not open to the public, you can only get in by appointment.
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401Ambo
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It looks like the blocks were from different castings.
This the casting number I've seen before for the Indy aluminum blocks.
This block only has "360" cast on the side.... And a different part number at the back of the block. Is this a regular "360" part number? |
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Aljav
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This is just incrediable that not one but two exist. ( do you know if these were completely or partially restored?)Plus 3 motors. I assume that these are the only two cars made? Where are these located, would love to see them in person.
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69 AMX 9.86 132 mph 71 JAV/AMX and 69 Javelin, .. NAMDRA member #1106
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401Ambo
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I had a chance to see the Indy cars again along with some extra engines.
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