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« on: December 03, 2021, 17:41:22 »
Hello,
do a Google search for Don Pither. He has a couple of books about Reliant Scimitars and Sabres.
He produces some rapid 2.6 Sabres and gave me useful information about the 2.6 tuning. He also supplied correct Mays headgaskets. Your starting point is a mk3 block with the best crank, steel maincaps, Mays head with Ford Essex valves etc with 45 deg seats and can be enlarged. 260 deg cam and it will rev safely to 7000.
The steel caps are simple to make and cheap.I still have one which was a spare. It consists of a piece of steel 1" x 1!/4" section x 4 1/4" long with the cente 2 1/2" machined down approx 3/8" with holes for the main bolts either side. The maincaps have their bolt faces levelled and the raised centre section skimmed down to give a flat section approx 1" wide so that when the new steel cap sits on top there is 1-2 thou clearance. The clearance is essential to prevent loading on the bearing but the maincap still has some ' give'. Maincap studs need to be 1" longer and I think they came from the Essex or 2.6 headbolts.
Years ago a club member produced some webber inlets.
Tony