jseng
Fair comment and no doubt many variants of the head could have been offered but for me the outgoing FA was perfect to answer your question, and a new stock head I believe, would not be any cheaper than an FA if made in the UK, and while the other concepts sound tempting with alot of scope for development, the main interest would come from tuners and racers I believe.
With the FA, I could do a little bit of home brewed hot rodding at little extra cost, a few hours with my Proxxon, carbide burrs and Nuway cutters.
Then fit all the nice bits to it and get everything in spec, very satisfying but even better riding the results which is where it counts.
I used your spring height info by the way, many thanks for posting that, they ended up similar to my RH4 which was trouble free in that respect.
Add to that a better looking, leak free head, 1.75lb lighter than before that works well so far and sounds better too.
Hums along between 4-5000 on recent unavoidable motorway journeys with that cool baritone rumble at lower revs.
There is a vast difference between this and what you are doing however but I,m happy with my current engine setup and don,t contemplate any further mods, just fine tuning carbs, velo stacks and K&N.
This won,t stop me following your developments with interest and my next set of cam followers won,t be from Andover if they let go. A jseng J380 equivalent?
