Engine Punk

I was over Adrian Booth's the other day shooting the breeze over cylinder heads and he pulled this out of a pile of other interesting stuff. He had another - all shiny and ready to be fitted onto the short block - but that belonged to somebody else so in defference to Adrian's customer I didn't photograph that but snapped this work in progress instead. The finished article looked rather fine, though you'll just have to take my word for it. It's a down draft cylinder head for a Modified Anglia Engine also known as the MAE head. I'd never heard of this before but as Adrian explained some of its history a distant bell began to ring. And you just have to peer down the inlet ports in the top photo to see what straight path the inlet gases now have. Usually they'd have to negotiate a right-angle bend. Cosworth were the firm most closely associated with the MAE cylinder head but there were many other firms of these versions including Holbay. Ford and C...