Guess what showed up in our shop.....

[DrewP]

A customer told me that he had this sitting around, and brought it in to show Walter and I.

This is allegedly the only un-machined S&R 16v prototype head casting left, he spoke with some people at the factory who said they could still make up a set of cams and do all the finish machining, but he's probably going to just keep it like this, it'd take a ton of money to make it useable, and it's an interesting little bit of history as it is.

The three sections were planed, but nothing else was done. Cam journals, lifter bores, combustion chambers, plug wells are all completely un-touched.



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Best,
Drew

[Jordan]

A customer told me that he had this sitting around, and brought it in to show Walter and I.

This is allegedly the only un-machined S&R 16v prototype head casting left, he spoke with some people at the factory who said they could still make up a set of cams and do all the finish machining, but he's probably going to just keep it like this, it'd take a ton of money to make it useable, and it's an interesting little bit of history as it is.
Best,
Drew

[DrewP]

It was more like



This is Walter staring at it from a distance in disbelief:






Best,
Drew

[Crazyswede]

Well i know for a fact that there is another complete non machined 16v 99 head in the USA but I am not telling where it is.

[DrewP]

Well i know for a fact that there is another complete non machined 16v 99 head in the USA but I am not telling where it is.

8) Good to know! I can only go off what he tells me! I can pass on the message if there are other blanks that could be cut to be useable, doing more than one at once would make it substantially more affordable.

Best,
Drew

[sonett]

There is also one in England

[Luke]

No sane person would try to tackle the machining on that thing!

[Jordan]

Pfft! A couple of hours with a dremel tool and it'd be good to go!

[Geoff]

No sane person would try to tackle the machining on that thing!

I've seen some of the drawings for some of the additional parts that need to be built in able to fit this head. There's a LOT that needs to be done.

No header or intake manifold?

Where did it come from?

[sonett]

No sane person would try to tackle the machining on that thing!

Machining would be nothing too special for the right shop, although not cheap, line boring would be the biggest concern.
Inlet and exhaust manifold would be straightforward.

Forgot to mention, don't get the work done in the UK by British Engineers, best to get it done in the states

[SwedeSport]

that head is pretty badass but those chairs are Tits! I want em for my shop.

[Luke]

No sane person would try to tackle the machining on that thing!

I should probably mention that I am insane

[Jordan]

[Luke]

So most of the people on this site know, its not exactly a secret, I've been working for some time on putting one of these together for the silver and green chassis in my project thread...
I have most of the original kit, but I am missing a few pieces...
Even with almost all of the right bits, an entire machine shop and a 5 axis mill at my disposal its going to a real challenge to get the thing together! But I love challenges, so why not :)


Would be really interested to talk to the person that owns that head if you have any contact information...

[Geoff]

It looks like you've been putting that new mill and lathe to good use already!
I love this part:
"Step 493, build your own distributor using drawing 'Distributor'."