Well I sure wish we could get details & videos....etc. More than that I'd like to get to race with them
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Billet Aluminum Slant 6 Head! Seriously!! |
Yes, they have run it a lot. |
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| Author: | Rick Covalt [ Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:21 pm ] |
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Well I sure wish we could get details & videos....etc. More than that I'd like to get to race with them
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:10 am ] |
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Quote: Don't sell Howard short.
Boy, this did not age well. Their Dart was very fast, and was a really well built/beautiful car. The Davis gang is good people too. Maybe this will motivate Mike to put the Valiant back together.  
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| Author: | hyper_pak [ Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Billet Aluminum Slant 6 Head! Seriously!! |
If you build it, they will come ............ (Field of Dreams) |
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Sat Oct 14, 2023 8:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Billet Aluminum Slant 6 Head! Seriously!! |
Hard to believe this thread is over 11 years old already. Sad to see the people no longer with us. Useless trivia, I have one of Howard's old converters in my car now. It stalled 5200 for him and wasn't enough. I haven't put it on the brake yet in mine to see what I can get out of it. 
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| Author: | Dart270 [ Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:25 am ] |
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Yep, pretty sad. All good things... I have quite a number of Mike J parts scattered around my cars now. Would be nice to see The Davis' race again sometime. I would pay more attention now... Lou |
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| Author: | Rick Covalt [ Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:45 am ] |
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Quote: Would be nice to see The Davis' race again sometime. I would pay more attention now...
I'd love to race with some of the folks I've never met. I'd rather drive west to race than South. Not that I have anything against Knoxville, but it is usually 120 degrees and 75% of our trips have ended in rain. So someone plan a race out there and I'll try and come! PS- I am running Howard's old external oil pump system on my car. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:29 pm ] |
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Quote: *cough* *cough* *Supra head* *cough* *cough*
*sneeze!* *sneeze!* Jaguar head *sneeze!* *sneeze!**sniffle* *sniffle* Trio of Subaru heads *sniffle* *sniffle* *burp* *burp* Australian South African Argentinian Hemi Crossflow OHC head *burp* *burp* 
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Mon Oct 16, 2023 8:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Billet Aluminum Slant 6 Head! Seriously!! |
Out of the blue I got a call from Howard tonight and we had a nice little chat. (2:45) He had the car out once this year, he didn't volunteer what it ran. He did say he really enjoys playing golf with his son now. |
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| Author: | hyper_pak [ Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:49 am ] |
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It's good to keep up with the circle. Nothing worse than calling someone or hearing about their demise. You just never know. |
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:15 am ] |
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So true Stan. |
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| Author: | Tim Keith [ Tue Nov 14, 2023 12:39 am ] |
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Quote: Here is the latest picture from Robert Maw's facebook post.
I like the Toyota T series head. They were only 75 hp stock (when a 225 was making 95), but can make 700 hp. There is a decent (spendy)cottage industry for parts like billet heads. Bore is similar to a slant six, pushrods are on same side - and it's based on a 50s Mopar hemi valve train. Intake would be on passenger sIde. They seem to be popular in Latin America. 700 hp will split the Toyota block - some use a custom "girdle". I'd like to see just one made. The T water pump is even offset like a slant six. The 3TC as a six would be close to a 170. Just one! There has got to be lots more slant sixes still around than 70s Corollas - and yet they manage to accomplish impressive results
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Billet Aluminum Slant 6 Head! Seriously!! |
Robert Maw is posting on FB again. As I suspected they let him use machines during shop downtime. He has a 2nd head roughed out to the point of installing guides and finishing spring pads. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Sat Dec 30, 2023 5:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Billet Aluminum Slant 6 Head! Seriously!! |
For years and decades, fans of this engine have said "After the nuclear war, what's left will be cockroaches and Slant-6 Darts and Valiants". I'd like to amend that: After the nuclear war, what's left will be cockroaches and Slant-6 Darts and Valiants, and the cockroaches will be talking about what if there were an aluminum head available for their Slant-6 Darts and Valiants.
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| Author: | Tim Keith [ Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:05 pm ] |
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An OEM head is 95 percent, it would be a pity to pay $3,000 for the other 5 percent, and except for a few on this forum nobody cares in an "LS swap it" hobby. I have a hunch that dental implants will have the same long term price drop as LASIK and that some future tech will make the miracle head affordable before I die. In that world the nth iteration of the Giga Press extrudes whatever . |
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