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In this Discussion
- bob ward November 2010
- bobdriveshudson November 2010
- ET8conv November 2010
- Hudson308 November 2010
- Lee ODell November 2010
- MikeWA November 2010
- StillOutThere November 2010
Aftermarket aluminum Hudson cylinder heads
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Who else made aftermarket aluminum cylinder heads for Hudsons. I know about Edmonds, Offenhauser & Clifford, but did anyone else ? Edelbrock ??
Tom -
I think I read somewhere that someone down under made aluminum heads. But I could be mistaken about that.
Lee O'Dell -
I had only heard of Edmunds and Clifford- are you sure Offenhauser made them? May need to add that to my ebay search. . .
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I know of an Offy head on a big Hornet in Buddy Bardwell's old dirt track racer. He had the car at the Auburn national a couple of years ago. I think he has a 357 cube in the car now, but has a bigger one in his garage. He told me that he had an offy head years ago & was able to convince them to make a small run for him about 20 years ago. The nice thing with the offy head is that it says HUDSON cast into the top of the head.
Tom -
Lee ODell wrote:I think I read somewhere that someone down under made aluminum heads. But I could be mistaken about that.
Lee O'Dell
Not mistaken, Lee. Guy's name was Clive Gibson. Think I read here that the mold patterns still exist. Couldn't find the thread, though.
Of course, there's also the new head being cast in Texas if you missed those posts.
http://www.classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=13&id=136427&Itemid=152
http://www.classiccar.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=13&id=130645&Itemid=152Workin Stiff -
I do remember the Clive Gibson head and actually saw one in poor condition when I was on the HET Aussi trip a few years ago. It was a 2 piece design and looked like it might be prone to leaking. And I do know about the new head that is in process at this time.
I was mainly interested in any other "vintage" brands from back in the day.
Tom -
The 2 piece heads were done by Clive Gibson in association with Frank? Kleinig, I think they are marked Kleinig Gibson. The 2 piece heads would be very flexible unless the 2 halves were really well screwed together. The patterns do still exist for the head and I think also an inlet manifold, in Sydney I last heard.
There is one of those 2 piece heads in the US, I remember someone over there saying they had one on the forum a few years ago -
We remember seeing the 2piece head in Australia in 2004 also. We were at a HET meet with the Aussies. A really nice meet, good people and good food. Thanks for reminding us. Bob P
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Hudson Motor Co. offered a two piece (top /bottom) high compression head for the '34-35 Terraplane 6. It had, of course, a gasket in the middle. I owned a couple of these decades ago but don't have a photo. But that was the way some early Terraplanes went racing.
