All Small Six What’s happening with the Vintage Inlines SBF Aluminum Cylinder Heads and Manifolds…?

[awasson]

Ok, if that was the case, a finished head is a long way from the foundry, so someone had to do all the machine work, (drawings) and supply all the ancillary stuff as well. Not a lot of places here that could or would do that work, (yellaterra?) And the Australian manifolds dont fit, so where did they come from. head stud developments does make some heads for our local GM six, they are low volumes and expensive, but they do wake up the six.

It's the first I had heard of it but then again, I'm not very knowledgeable in the history of these heads or how the VI head evolved. It sounds like a convoluted way to make a buck. You'd have to do some volume to do it and as you said, there's a lot of post pour work to do before you deliver a head. VI offers head/manifold as a pair so I suspect the same foundry pours both.

Oh well. Glad to see that there's been an update. Eventually I might go that route too so I'm rooting for them to iron out all of the details and make them a success.

 

[Wayne clark]

Ok, if that was the case, a finished head is a long way from the foundry, so someone had to do all the machine work, (drawings) and supply all the ancillary stuff as well. Not a lot of places here that could or would do that work, (yellaterra?) And the Australian manifolds dont fit, so where did they come from. head stud developments does make some heads for our local GM six, they are low volumes and expensive, but they do wake up the six.

He put up a picture with a bunch of them on a pallet that still needed the machine work . You look at the castings and you can get an idea of all the work needed to have a finished product .
And even those may have been the ones he said had a casting issue .
I purchased Classic Inline S# 009 from a member here about 6 years back . I'm hopeing somebody didn't get carried away with milling the head & porting it .
I'm hopeing the 46 cc chambers won't be an issue with the stock dish pistons & our thicker head gaskets . It looks good in that shipping box But the no problems remains to be seen .