Hornet head w/attached plate
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This was the high compression head made from cast iron instead of aluminum due to the Korean war. I think it was only on 1951 engines.0
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The plate tells you to use Premium gas with this head due to pinging. I have seen it attached to Aluminum heads as well.0
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Contact K-gap. Maybe they'll want to reproduce them.0
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thanks for the replies, I've passed the info on to the owners.
That engine is a Twin-H 308 with attached hydramatic. Complete with linkages to the carbs and tranny, breathers, and carburetors.
Saved by some young hot rodders from a salvage yard in Indiana, it was about to become a piece of lost history. They bought it in hopes of finding a good stepdown car to put it in or perhaps build a roadster type hot rod with it.
I started out that way, engine first.
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Mark,I had one with the Tag also. We checked the one we had and it was the same as a 51 308 Iron ( CC chambers)
Thanks Rudy.
The U.S.Army used some of these engines in small Generator Sets and the engine that I removed the H145 head was Army Green in color and had water-proof sparkplugs. No Dist.was in the engine.0 -
Hi all I have a 51 145 H alluminum head on my 308 engine I sent itto
a machine shop and they put inserts in the spark plug holes an had .40 th
machined off . duncan0 -
duncan wrote:Hi all I have a 51 145 H alluminum head on my 308 engine I sent itto
a machine shop and they put inserts in the spark plug holes an had .40 th
machined off . duncan
Ok, and then?0 -
Jack Clifford said the aluminum head was an inch too thin when manufactured (maybe an exageration?).He did manufacture a 1" thicker head. My 51 308 did leak and after a .020 cut, checked out perfectly flat, then it leaked again. An iron head fixed it.0
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I was surprised at how much money this head brought. I imagine one with this octane requirement plate woud bring all that much more.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280235650187&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=0180 -
Yikes I have 2 on my shelf. I am falling over myself in a rush to get them on eBay. LOL0
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You should be falling over yourself. Anything uniquely Hudson usually brings a good price. Since you have so many, when are you sending one my way?0
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