Re: [AMC-list] Nash Healey with History

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:26, Larry R. Daum <mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Re: Nash Healey with History
>
> There is a guy in the Upper Mississippi Valley region of the Nash Club
> (NCCA) who collects vintage Nash speed equipment and has the parts on his
> car. The stuff is very rare and expensive.
>
>
Oooh, fun stuff! Yeah, I can see how it's not very practical, but very nice
to look at someone else's stuff :-)

Plus they're torque tube rears, that's way too much unsprung weight for a
sports car, sorry Mr. Healey and whoever at Nash.

I deeply love the early, non-Pinin Farina Nash designed N-H. Blasphemy or
not, I'm not a fan of HP at any cost -- I prefer balance. And all the
attendant visual complexity of the EFI seems out of place under that hood,
though each his own, and Mark has the cleanest 4.0 engine compartment of
anything I've seen (pics only).

Simply a cleaned up 232 would be about right I think. Maybe a 4.0-like
exhaust and three side draft carbs on a custom manifold.

I'm thinking that when all is said and done, I will not be building any
monster motor out of that Navarro stuff I have. I'm pushing back against
project bloat. One of the Navarro heads (truly have to be seen to be
believed), plus that cast stainless turbo manifold converted to triple carb,
and headers, on a 232 or 258 would be a great motor all considered -- a
modest cam with a head that really breathes would be 200 - 225 real HP, look
and sound great, and be as reliable as detuned factory. And a nice thing for
a real sports car.


I have been resisting this, but this past weekend at that british car show I
got to sit in a bugeyed Healey Sprite, and I think there's one in my (not so
near) future. It's tiny (no AMC engine will go in one of those) but I can in
fact sit in it. It's a really sweet little car. 1600 lbs doesn't need much
motor to push it.


If money was no object, I'd get that eBay N-H, strip all that crap out,
install live rear axle, AMC six and whatever manual trans would fit right,
and drive the crap out of it. It's not pristine anymore anyways, and whoever
buys that thing will likely dry-rot it in some stupid garage. It could use a
few dents from use.
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