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Brett Wilkie
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Post by Brett Wilkie »

I have not used them in a number of years, are they still the "go to" people for crossflow bits? I am looking for a steel flywheel and a compatible high torque starter motor. I would normally shop from Burtons in the U.K. but thought he might be good for this sort of thing?
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peteleo
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Post by peteleo »

They are a good source for those type of parts. My brother and i buy parts from them often. Ken is quite knowledgeable and helpful.
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Post by Brett Wilkie »

peteleo wrote:They are a good source for those type of parts. My brother and i buy parts from them often. Ken is quite knowledgeable and helpful.
Thanks for the endorsement, I just got off the phone from Ken and he is great to deal with. He has a nice aluminum flywheel and a high torque starter but I will have to switch up to the larger 8.5 inch lotus clutch and pressure plate witch is not a bad thing to do, just not a cheap thing to do.
The alloy flywheel, starter motor and heavy duty Lotus clutch assembly with cost about $1270. in Canadian money but that's the cost of fun these days. I wonder how much the revenue man will get from me?
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reggie
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Crossflow

Post by reggie »

Brett u doing a crossflow on what? I been thinking of doing one on my anglia 105e
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Brett Wilkie
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Post by Brett Wilkie »

My particular situation is an Anglia but it is a 100e Anglia, it is very similar to a 105e in many ways considering weight and dimensions and I will be using a mildly warmed up crossflow. I will be running a 1660 711m block with a ported alloy head, 1300 pistons with the usual twin 40 DCOE Webers and other mods. I thought the reliability of a modern starter motor would be desirable compared to my recollections of what the stock Cortina starters delivered to me on all my old Fords from the past. I will also get the lighter alloy flywheel that uses the 8.5 inch clutch, the advantage I will get from that is the larger/longer wearing clutch surface and that will help with the tall 2.25:1 first gear ratio of the gearbox that I am using. I am looking for reliability in an old English Ford that didn’t exist in the past so I hope it works?
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Brett Wilkie
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Post by Brett Wilkie »

I am a happy boy today, my bits arrived from Dave Bean but the bloody UPS charged me brokerage and I will avoid them when shipping in the future when possible.
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The high torque starter mates to the 110 tooth flywheel and the clutch is the heavy duty 8.5 inch type so it should make for a good package. Dave Bean was excellent to deal with and Ken very helpful.
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drewlan
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Post by drewlan »

Nice. I bought some parts from Dave Bean before, and I can say that they have a good customer service.
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