G81 Can Cycle
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I guess it is time for a Full Auto head update. The new name of the product will be “STS FullAuto”
We are finishing the first run of 10 heads now. I am very happy with the final result, I hope our Norton community will also be happy with the offering. Although human nature, and the nature of social media, I am sure there will be some that will have negative comments. LOL
History: I purchased the rights to the FullAuto heads several years ago. We had the first 10 test castings done in Australia by the people would did the original units. After they cast the first 10 they told me they did not want to do the job any longer. We had the test heads and tooling sent to us in the US. The castings were not up to our standards for quality. We sent the tooling (patterns and core boxes) to a foudry we do business with, they also do turbo and supercharger housings and intakes, and to exceptional quality work. They reviewed the tooling and told us that the reason for the poor-quality castings was in the tooling. So we decided to remake the tooling. The final result was a very high quality casting.
Final product: The heads will come with valve guides, valve seats (seats will be cut and guides will be honed to size) We have installed inserts for the 3 studs used to mount the head. We will also supply 3 studs and special nuts. We did this to move this thread to a SAE standard for available tooling. All other threaded holes are original to Norton specifications
Guides are 630 Aluminum Nickel Bronze
Seats are MoldStar 90 http://www.performancealloys.net/MotorsportApplications.htm
Studs and nuts are ARP heat treated stainless steel
We have done final machining on intake ports. Some blending has been done on exhaust ports, but not completely machined like the intake.
Pricing: I am not sure what our resellers will do as to final price. I can say that from information I have received from the resellers who sold the original FullAuto heads, we will be selling to our distributors at almost US$600.00 less that the original price, so final price from distributors should be much less than the original units. And, in my opinion, you will get a much higher quality final product
Potential Resellers (most have already verified their desire to handle the product)
1 Colorado Norton Works (US )
2 Andover Norton (Europe and Worldwide)
3) British Cycle Supply (Canada and US)
4) New York City Norton (US)
5 British Imports (Malaga, Western Australia)
I will be adding some more updates on other products ready for distribution, including billet cylinders, and complete transmission gear and shaft sets.
We are finishing the first run of 10 heads now. I am very happy with the final result, I hope our Norton community will also be happy with the offering. Although human nature, and the nature of social media, I am sure there will be some that will have negative comments. LOL
History: I purchased the rights to the FullAuto heads several years ago. We had the first 10 test castings done in Australia by the people would did the original units. After they cast the first 10 they told me they did not want to do the job any longer. We had the test heads and tooling sent to us in the US. The castings were not up to our standards for quality. We sent the tooling (patterns and core boxes) to a foudry we do business with, they also do turbo and supercharger housings and intakes, and to exceptional quality work. They reviewed the tooling and told us that the reason for the poor-quality castings was in the tooling. So we decided to remake the tooling. The final result was a very high quality casting.
Final product: The heads will come with valve guides, valve seats (seats will be cut and guides will be honed to size) We have installed inserts for the 3 studs used to mount the head. We will also supply 3 studs and special nuts. We did this to move this thread to a SAE standard for available tooling. All other threaded holes are original to Norton specifications
Guides are 630 Aluminum Nickel Bronze
Seats are MoldStar 90 http://www.performancealloys.net/MotorsportApplications.htm
Studs and nuts are ARP heat treated stainless steel
We have done final machining on intake ports. Some blending has been done on exhaust ports, but not completely machined like the intake.
Pricing: I am not sure what our resellers will do as to final price. I can say that from information I have received from the resellers who sold the original FullAuto heads, we will be selling to our distributors at almost US$600.00 less that the original price, so final price from distributors should be much less than the original units. And, in my opinion, you will get a much higher quality final product
Potential Resellers (most have already verified their desire to handle the product)
1 Colorado Norton Works (US )
2 Andover Norton (Europe and Worldwide)
3) British Cycle Supply (Canada and US)
4) New York City Norton (US)
5 British Imports (Malaga, Western Australia)
I will be adding some more updates on other products ready for distribution, including billet cylinders, and complete transmission gear and shaft sets.
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