DeTomaso Mailing List: February 98, Message #132
     



From: 	MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: Re:  Re: 2V-4V Intake for Aussies

Date: 	Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:55:07 +0000



Kirby wrote:



>Our Longchamp has an Australian engine (or at least everyone who seems to

know says it is). How, in fact, do you tell for sure just looking at it

from the outside?



>>>Don't know about the block.  There's gotta be some external I.D. number

that would tell you; Steve Liebenow will probably know.



On the heads, look for the 'hook' in the casting as the bottom corner of the

heads to positively I.D. the heads as Aussie (see the photographs in the Dec

POCA newsletter to see what I mean.)  Otherwise, these ARE Cleveland heads,

thus valve covers, etc. are interchangeable.  I presume gaskets are the same

too (2V Aussie and U.S.)



I never knew there were open-chamber versions of the Aussie 2v head until

now.  Velly intelesting.



If you've got a 4V intake on there, things are screwed up.  Hie thee on down

to your neighborhood purveyor of speed parts and have him hook you up with an

aluminum 2V intake pronto! :>)



Aren't the Edelbrock carbs simply the old Carter carbs produced under a new

name?  I seem to recall people on this list swearing by them, saying they

work better and are easier to tune and KEEP in tune than Holleys.  True?



Mike