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Are Arden 8 ports till avalable ?? minispares dont seem to have had stock for some time ??

Have you tried Bill Richards?
http://www.billrichardsracing.com/servi ... nder-heads
Mini Speed list them too

Medway, put my finger in the water here, anyone know a bloke that worked for KVA 16 valve engine heads that did his time with Louis Newmark/Smiths-Newmark in near New Addington and Biggin Hill in the late 1980s. CNC machining programming especially, of an excellent level?

Can't remember the blokes name, but he was only about 21 in 1990, when I was there, playing with my operational amplifiers and boot up programmes.

5portsrock wrote:Are Arden 8 ports till avalable ?? minispares dont seem to have had stock for some time ??

the Arden 8 port will be avalible again soon - minispares have spent the last 18 odd months sorting various problems out - mainly with supply.

the 'new' heads are been made from brand new casting boxes, using brand new casting & engineering drawings so all the inner casting walls are of a known thickness / valve seats are correct etc etc. 'as bought' the head will have far better chambers and ports than before (so should be a 'fit and forget' in most cases). there will also be a 'motorsport' version with bigger valves and more porting (this will be a more expensive special order product).

there will also be avalible (is already in stock) a full injection kit with direct to head throttle bodies. this kit will fit under a standard bonnet and will include ecu, loom, coil pack, front pulley etc etc.

minispares have invested a huge amount of money sorting the arden out to make it a saleable product again!!!

Rich,

What investment will the customer have to make to buy one of these complete kits?

Can you give us a guide.

Mike

Mike wrote:Rich,

What investment will the customer have to make to buy one of these complete kits?

Can you give us a guide.

Mike

mike

the injection / management kit is C-AJJ4065

2500 plus vat

but this is everything you need

Sorry Rich I meant new heads and what extra for the special order competition version.

Also did you get the e-mail I sent to your work?

Mike wrote:Sorry Rich I meant new heads and what extra for the special order competition version.

Also did you get the e-mail I sent to your work?

mike

sorry, the 'std' C-AJJ4064 head price should be in the same ball park as before.

the 'comp' version is not something that has a price - it will be a 1 x C-AJJ4064 plus a costing from the specalist who will do the conversion to the head for an individual customer

Very nice Rich.

It'll be good to see power/torque figures from it compared to the 7port Billet Specialist Components head. I know this one can be used in historic racing but it would still be interested to see up up against a brand new CNC design of head in terms of technology

tomkidd wrote:Very nice Rich.

It'll be good to see power/torque figures from it compared to the 7port Billet Specialist Components head. I know this one can be used in historic racing but it would still be interested to see up up against a brand new CNC design of head in terms of technology

tom

we are planning on having some proper videos made of it running up on an engine dyno which will viewable on youtube

people will be able to make there own decisions.

The video seems like a good idea

My Minispares 8 port has an equity card!

guru_1071 wrote:

Mike wrote:Rich,

What investment will the customer have to make to buy one of these complete kits?

Can you give us a guide.

Mike

mike

the injection / management kit is C-AJJ4065

2500 plus vat

but this is everything you need

Rich, will this fit the previous generation of heads? and are the the component parts of the kit available separately?

Richspec wrote:
Rich, will this fit the previous generation of heads? and are the the component parts of the kit available separately?

it will do as the inlet port spacing and stud hole locations havent moved - will take a picture of it fitted to an older head when i have time.

at the moment the kit is the complete thing, but im sure that if they are popular they will sell it as two kits for people who have the ignition management side already.

ok

heres a couple of pictures of the injection hung off the front of a early arden head.

the studs where screwed in by hand and the throttle bodies just slid on - no messing.

note the distance from head face to end of throttle body - 140mm

note also that the spark plugs can be removed without having to remove the throttle bodies from the head





nice or what?

Nice, will they stick out of the bonnet rich?

those throttle bodies are bang tidy.. they look period! if thats possible!? are you going to be doing some banana pipes for the front like on the cooper car?

thanks for the info Rich, those bodies do look nice !

Very nice, had better start saving.

I think you could just about get away with them in a classic engine bay and not look out of place.
Thats why i have gone the amal route, but these....