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Some of you Car Guys might find this interesting.

http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/oldshealey.pdf

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Very impressive craftsmanship and engineering you've put into it.

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Originally Posted by Tomcomm (Post 3196594)

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lol wasn't a typo.

It's a compliment.... from the Urban dictionary:

Noice
Beyond the boundaries and exceeding the limits of nice. Spoken with emphasis when describing something particularly awesome.

Indeed, your Olds/Healy is noice!

jr

Fantastiic job and history !!

Excellent. Gotta love the Olds Rocket V8. arguably the finest engine to ever come out of Lansing...

Dragsters would hold the Olds at 8000 rpm off the line in the '60s.
I've got a junkyard '59 Olds 394 sitting on a dolley against the garage wall,
in the highly unlikely case my Oldshealey blows.

Tomtork's Other Cars: 1970 GTO 400

This is one of the best cars I have ever seen and it has definitely the best story :thmbsp:

Thanks for the Compliment Josef.

My Dad's folks migrated from Austria to Ukraine, then to Canada in 1894.

I configured a 1954 Austin Healey AH 100 with a big block 348 ci Oldmobile V8 in mid 1957, 10 years before Shelby's 427ci Ford big block. It had a curb weight of 2486# and a F/B ratio of 48/52% verses a weight of 2529# and F/B 48/52% for the Shelby 427. I have always wondered if Shelvy was aware of the "OldsHealey" when he went "Big Block Cobra".

Seems Shelby's first attempt at a big block was to drop-in a 427 BB in place of the 289 SB, performed by his guys in Southern Calif. The guy that did the install apparently replaced a small block engine with a big block with no additional rear setback! He relates he went for a ride with Carroll thru the neighborhood. It was the most freighting time he had ever experienced in his lifetime!

Shelby was assembling 289 ci Cobras in a LA Airport Calif industry zone in Elsungundo, virtually adjacent to Inglewood Calif where I did my engine swap. Seems strange they came out with exactly the same 48/52% F/B ratio, the same 90 inch wheelbase and the same curb wieght within 48# curb weight! Amazing! Big Block 427 ci engines alone must have weighed 200# to 300# more than the Small Block 289 ci with no additional rear setback!

Anyway, I moved to Santa Inez Calif in early 2000 to a Woodstock Calif 20 acre ranch with Judy and my classic cars: The '54 OldsHealey 418ci, '56 Chevy hardtop 327ci and '70 GTO 400ci.are garaged along with a John Deer tractor and a golf cart.

In all these 18 years I have only met two car guys. A neighbor Dan Gerber with competitive Healeys and Larry Westbury with a competitive Shelby Viper V10. I only rode passenger once with each. I was impressed, but scared shitless!

I still do an OldsHealey 0 to 60mph in less than 4 seconds on the road that runs along side our property, so there!