Vintage Inlines Cylinder Head Update- October 2024

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A heads up!!!

Just recieved an email. Dated 10/14/24 @ 2:58 pm.

I hope I’m not overstepping my boundaries for posting the information below but, I thought it’s important since it’s good news for small block Ford inline sixer’s.


Here is the email:
Cylinder Head Update 10/14/2024

Owe everyone an update

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Cylinder Head Update- October 2024

This is the latest update, but still not an invitation to order, sorry. Please do not email me or call to ask if you are on the lists. I have not been adding names to the email contact list because it grew so large and so much time had passed that it was no longer up to date. I am investigating how to create a form on the website specifically to create a new list of interested customers.

There is news to report. The company I was trying to work with is under new ownership. I have been in touch with the new owners and they are interested in proceeding with the cylinder heads. Timing is not determined but work is being done to create the digital model that will be needed for machining and the foundry has been re-engaged.

My plan is still to contact everyone from the original waiting list to give them the first chance to get one of the heads. Then, I'll make them available through the website. I will probably pre-sell when the heads are almost ready. I need to do this to pay for them when they are made.


Thanks for your patience,

Matt
 
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"A heads up!!!"

I see what you did there...

In all seriousness, this is great news. It must be really frustrating for Matt to have a product that lots of people want to give him their hard-earned money for, and have supplier/maker issues that have prevented it from being made and sold.
 
Matt covered it pretty well what’s happening in the second and third paragraph.

The best thing is, be patient and see how things work out. Let’s hope for the best.
 
boy, has he been hammered on. Me? might walk away, it’s no fun...
 
You have a job to do, you do it to the best of your abilities. If someone doesn’t like it, it’s on them, they can go somewhere else. That being said, communication is part of do your job, doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad news👍
 
A heads up!!!

Just recieved an email. Dated 10/14/24 @ 2:58 pm.

I hope I’m not overstepping my boundaries for posting the information below but, I thought it’s important since it’s good news for small block Ford inline sixer’s.

Thanks for your patience,

Matt
What I call “a getting close” which seems to go on for ever. We’re such a small market to these guys (foundries, major machinest) we just create a pain for some of them. Mike’n Matt find folk who DO see advantage but it’s time consuming. Oz & Argie contnued to make the i6 after we stopped and some of these pages show just what that can mean. Here’s to the two mentioned. :banana: (I guess we lost the ‘big party' .gif). The head’s not for a 'work truck bronco' but I appreciate ur dedication & work.
 
"A heads up!!!"

I see what you did there...

In all seriousness, this is great news. It must be really frustrating for Matt to have a product that lots of people want to give him their hard-earned money for, and have supplier/maker issues that have prevented it from being made and sold.
This is another example of what happens when all our manufacturing is done over seas. There’s less and less places that can do real work!
 
that’s Y Matt brought it home.
Originater (Mike W who started the site)
did it in Oz.
 
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