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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by chickenridgerods, Dec 22, 2008.

  1. Since I don't recall seeing any clear photos of ARDUN parts on the HAMB, I offer up some vintage engine parts porn to give you sweet dreams at night. The (mostly) assembled engine belongs to my father, while the grubby bare heads/parts are what made a dream of mine come true. Disregard the scowling, sun-burnt bum at the end; he'd had a long day.

    On a related note, for you fellow HAMBers with original heads, I'm interested in hearing what serial number, head version, and valve cover style you have. You can tell that both my heads and my fathers heads are the later design and have the brass "Made in England" tagged covers. Mine are missing, but show remanants of the rivits, while my father has his tucked away in an envelope to one day be reunited with the covers.


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  3. You mean wet dreams, not sweet dreams hehe. Must you torture us this way just b4 Xmas?

    Great pix dude, thanx for sharin !!

    Rat
     
  4. scruff
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    My heads are early ones with the front water outlet #214&.215. The covers say ARDUN and NEW YORK and have the small nubs were the brass plates were.
     

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  5. Deuce Roadster
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    Neat stuff ... the stuff dreams are made of :D
     
  6. original patina
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    Love seeing this coupe in Ohio.

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  7. Kevin Lee
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    Ummm... thank you again.
     
  8. scruff
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    Here's a pic I believe from ebay of original ardun exhaust manifolds.I've heard there's two styles of these.
     

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  10. Dat Dirty Rat
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    You've got ALL the KOOL sh!t man....The engine is AWESOME!!
     
  11. OoltewahSpeedShop
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    I saw the picture of all that stuff piled up there last night on a different thread, and never saw the Ardun's in there. WOW what a place for those to be. I guess you saved them? All I spotted was the finned brake drum in the background. Hens teeth???

    Kevin
     
  12. southpark
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    do you own all this crazy rare shit?
     
  13. Russco
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    This one is my dads it has some history it went 200 at B'ville in 53 in this tanker
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    then it was on the cover of Hot Rod in 57 in the Scotty's T roadster
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    then my dad ran it for a few years in this FED
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    now he has it in this old WG car for display
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  14. hotrodladycrusr
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    I still think your crazy, but it's a cool crazy. :D
    Happy holidays to you and your whole family.
     
  15. sodbuster
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    Cool.........

    Not mine, but from Bonneville this past year.

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  16. It all belongs to various members of my family. My parts are recent purchases, while others are items my father's/brother's that they've had since I was a little kid. I grew up with my dad's heads stuffed away in a crate and was always fond of them; to the point I'd always said I'd buy a pair of my own "some day". I'm sure Russco is familiar the feeling growing up with 'em, too.

    Any chance you could get some more photos and maybe dimensions off of the Hilborn unit on your dad's engine? I'm looking to either find a unit, or make my own as close to the original as possible. Hilborn no longer has the molds to make any more for the ARDUN.
     
  17. Del Clark
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    Don Garlits has 3 complete sets on his shelves that he has had for years...you guessed it...he wont get rid of any of it.:eek:
     
  18. smarg
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    ardun over head conversion its a ........ beautiful thing
     
  19. 32 Barn Car
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    Mine in my '32 , late water outlets , tags are gone from covers but has holes where tags were ......Z.D.
     

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  20. Russco
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    I'd be glad to help you out. Here are a few more pics, I can take more over X-mas when I go to my folks. This set up is a bit goofy as it ran no top end oiling It had OILITE bushings on the rockers that were lubed every few passes and it didnt run the plug tubes on it
    PM to remind me I'll try to get whatever pics maybe helpful to you Mike
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  21. W Scott
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    All of those are a thing of beauty. I could only dream...
     
  22. scruff
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    Here's a shot of my far from prestine Hilborn squirts.
     

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  24. pasadenahotrod
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    I spoke to a guy from Canada years ago when a friend had an ARDUN engine for sale. He had been collecting head numbers for some years and told me that the true production figures were likely nearer to 1000 sets made rather than only the 5-600 as always thought. The heads were numbered when completed and some boxed sets had sequential numbers, some didn't. He had seen numbers in the 1600 range. The heads for the engine my friend had were numbered in the 600s.

    The engine had been raced in a 28-29 roadster at the drags in central TX, Hillsboro/Cleburne area, I remember.

    My friend got the engine because he was wearing one of my ARDUN T-shirts when eating breakfast at a local cafe. When he got up to leave an old man in the booth next to him said "Hey, I bet you don't know what that picture on that T-shirt means, do you?". My friend said "Sir, I would be surprised to know that you knew what it means."

    (The back of the shirt had a 3/4 size line drawing of the head cover, the front a Ford-stylized ARDUN script with an early V8 logo and flames shooting out from the sides of the
    V8.)

    Well, my friend sat down and had a nice long discussion about ARDUNs and Zora-Arkus Duntov and before you know it he was in an old school house used as a storage building looking down at a completely rebuilt short block and heads plus the new pumps, gaskets, balanced flywheel with new clutch disc and pressure plate, reman carbs, etc. built by Motoreco in Houston TX back in the mid-50s. He bought it and sold it several months later.

    The old man was NOT the roadster owner/driver, he was the owner/driver of an Indian race motorcycle said he had raced the roadster guy regularly and always beat him until he added the ARDUN to his flathead. Most people don't even remember the early days when you raced whoever was in the other no matter what they were driving/riding.

    After a win-lose-win-lose season, or seasons, of the car and bike "feud" the roadster guy upgraded to a Chrysler hemi. The bike man asked if he could buy the only car engine that had ever beaten him. The roadster guy said "Sure, just go down to Houston and pick it up at Motoreco and it's yours. I have no further use for it."

    So he did and kept it all those years until he had a chance meeting in a local cafe with a guy in a silk-screened T-shirt that reminded him of his old race days!
    I often wondered if the roadster guy would have abandoned that engine in Houston if he hadn't been asked about it by the bike guy.

    I do have a single cover which has the brass "Made in England" tag and is hand stamped
    "123 A KS" in 3/16" figures just above the top fin of the lower set to the left of the spark plug tube hole. It also has a very small stamp (3/32") on the lower face of the single hold down boss "MEN19". The "M" is not a standard one but is obviously an upside down "W". These letters and numbers are in perfect alignment and spacing so it was a purpose made stamp.
     
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