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Dave Bean Engineering
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:43 am
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?
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 11:30 am
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 12:28 pm
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?
Crossflow
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:20 pm
by reggie
Brett u doing a crossflow on what? I been thinking of doing one on my anglia 105e
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:24 pm
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?
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 1:03 pm
by Brett Wilkie
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:47 am
by drewlan
Nice. I bought some parts from Dave Bean before, and I can say that they have a good customer service.