DanR
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Here is a question put to me yesterday! Do any of you have an answer? I do know the 2.8 heads are becoming more scarce or so it seems. If heads are used other than the 2.8 Siamese designed ports the headers will need to be developed for them in an Alpine.
Looking forward to ideas, suggestions etc., etc....
Hi Dan- this may be a more appropriate question for the entire forum but since you have done so much work on figuring out how to do the V6 conversion I’ll start with you.
In your documentation (very well done by the way) about how to set up the engine itself you pose a number of recommendations for modifying the 2.8L Heads...cooling passages, valves, etc. My question is “Wouldn’t it be quite a bit easier to buy a new set of 3.0L Heads?”....I believe they are bolt on compatible and they seem to be available and not too badly priced....seems like by the time you put into having the old heads machined you could just buy a new set. I’m not super familiar with the 2.8L engine so I may be missing something obvious.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Bill
Looking forward to ideas, suggestions etc., etc....
Hi Dan- this may be a more appropriate question for the entire forum but since you have done so much work on figuring out how to do the V6 conversion I’ll start with you.
In your documentation (very well done by the way) about how to set up the engine itself you pose a number of recommendations for modifying the 2.8L Heads...cooling passages, valves, etc. My question is “Wouldn’t it be quite a bit easier to buy a new set of 3.0L Heads?”....I believe they are bolt on compatible and they seem to be available and not too badly priced....seems like by the time you put into having the old heads machined you could just buy a new set. I’m not super familiar with the 2.8L engine so I may be missing something obvious.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Bill
