Back in the early days of my business I had a very unhappy customer and, to make matters worse, the customer was a lawyer, not a good combination. Our lawyer friend brought me an MGB with its engine, in boxes, with a whole bunch of new parts and asked me to reassemble it and put […]
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The original exhaust systems on Healeys were very different from those currently available. This deviation from “originality” is particularly evident on the BJ8 and is not mentioned in any of the “authoritative” books I have read. This is my attempt to ensure that this detail of originality will not become lost as the years pass. […]
After several days of work we have completed the inventory of the used parts that I want to sell. Anyone who is interested in making an offer please send me an e mail: michaelsalter@gmail.com and I will forward the complete sorted list in Excel format or you can view it unsorted when you scroll down […]
Now that the seasons have started their “miraculous mutations” or “swapping around” as we humble non poets would put it the temperature in Ontario has risen, albeit briefly, above freezing. This brief respite has presented me with the opportunity to start a task that I have not been looking forward to. As promised, some weeks […]
BUILDING A “100R” ENGINE When I bought AHS3903 it was always my intention to race it for at least a couple of seasons and, some 6 years after the purchase, I managed to get the car finished just in time for the 1990 Austin Healey Challenge. Some years earlier I had had the opportunity to […]
Judy and I are up in N’Zed ( Kiwis believe that south should be on the top of the globe) for our annual winter get away. While I’m here I’m managing to take in a couple of events of the Southern Festival of Speed which has been held here for the last few years. The […]
I am seeking the advice of the British Sportscar aficionados out there to resolve a problem that I have encountered. As many will know I used to own and operate Precision Sportscar and our speciality was Big Healeys. At the peak of the business, in the mid eighties, we had 8 full time employees and […]
As the work on the conversion of AHX12’s rear suspension to coilovers proceeds I have been looking at other rear suspension systems for inspiration. One of the most interesting drawings that I have come across is that of the rear suspension used in the Lotus 33 F1 car of 1963. This state of the art […]
One of the problems I had with my MkIII (BJ8) was that the choke control kept coming loose in the dash. BJ8’s came through the shop on a fairly regular basis and at least half of those would arrive with the same problem. This fault did nothing to enhance the driver’s ability to adjust the […]