6-cylinder hop-ups?

[chrysleralmighty]

Hi, all – I'm new to the boards, but I've owned my dad's '52 J for a few years now and I'm finally getting around to rebuilding the motor and getting it on the road. It's a Corsair that originally came with the 4-cyl and no overdrive, but now I'm rebuilding a 6-cyl (161?) and it came with an o/d transmission (also needs rebuilt).

Does anyone know if Edmunds or any other aftermarket speed catalog ever built aluminum heads or multi-carb intakes for these 161c.i. inliners? I'd love to run a 2x2 intake and an aluminum head on this thing, but I've only heard of early speed equipment made for the 226. Anyone able to shed light on this stuff?

Thanks a ton! Lots to learn, but it's been great digging through some of the threads on this board...

[joefrazer]

Check out this page - http://www.henryjcars.com/hjc61/allstate/as525.html

Home page - http://www.henryjcars.com/

[chrysleralmighty]

Oh, man--that Edmunds head looks like exactly what I need! I'm only...what...12 years late? Dammit...

[Fid]

If  you're converting the car from a four cylinder to six cylinder it is important that it have overdrive as the rear ends were different in the six cylinder cars that did not have overdrive.  If you use the 41/9 (4:55) rear end, which the '51 four cylinders used, the six will not preform well unless you have overdrive. If your car is a '52 Corsair, four cylinder and did not have overdrive, the it has the 47/11 rear end which we really don't know how well that one will work in a six with overdrive. We had some discussion on here about HJs and the different rear end ratios used in the different models/engine configurations.  You may want to check these threads:
 http://kfclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7965.0.html

http://kfclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,7965.0.html

http://kfclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,6747.msg31488.html#msg31488

[chrysleralmighty]

You're right Fid--that's the rearend I've got and figured I'd needed to change those rear gears. Maybe to a 3:70-something? I'm also gonna change this thing over to a 12-volt car, too.

That Edmunds 6 head--does anyone know the guy who ended up buying it back in '04 (Darrin#10)?

[chrysleralmighty]

Jake--is that a 226 in that Darrin? Beautiful motor in that beautiful roadster...

[rialto]

That's not a 226. The distributor sticks out the top of the head on a 226. That's probably a 161.