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Title: Heads by Gene Brown! Post by: Sture S on October 13, 2017, 19:35:18 pm Did some digging in my garage and found some old S/F heads from Dave Perkins old Blue Pro Turbo.
I know most of the history and provenance but have some missing pieces. Need your help to get the history behind the heads and " Gene Brown" and Heads Up! Thanks! //Sture Tried to post some picture, but failed :-) Title: Re: Heads by Gene Brown! Post by: dave perkins on October 16, 2017, 19:37:28 pm Did some digging in my garage and found some old S/F heads from Dave Perkins old Blue Pro Turbo. I know most of the history and provenance but have some missing pieces. Need your help to get the history behind the heads and " Gene Brown" and Heads Up! Thanks! //Sture Tried to post some picture, but failed :-) Test my memory, what do you want to know? Title: Re: Heads by Gene Brown! Post by: Sture S on October 17, 2017, 17:27:27 pm Hi Dave!
thank you for replaying on my post. 15 years ago I saw an ad on some S/F heads that was fore sale. My plan was to use this heads on my Cal Looker. The deal ended up with, that I bought most (all) of the parts that was from your old engine. I did recognized that it was your old engine from the article that Bo Bertilsson wrote for Bilsport magazine (no. 12/1991) and from the article with Sören in Wheels magazine 6/1991 The looker is gone, but the engine have been laying around i the back of my garage for a long time :). I do remember that i tried to find some more information about "Heads by Gene Brown" back then. And his connection to Heads up? I have not found anything on him before and later in Connection with dragracing? Would be interesting if you could share with us some more, about the heads, the porting and hole history about the engine and your racing at that time. Thanks! Sture [attachment=1][attachment=2] Title: Re: Heads by Gene Brown! Post by: dave perkins on October 17, 2017, 21:14:55 pm “Heads by Gene Brown”: Gene is a longtime friend; I lived across the street from him back in the late eights. I was renting a house with Cary Taylor and Ron Lummus at the time. Gene was doing the heads on Cary’s ProStock car. He ported and maintained the heads on my old blue car. There was not any connection with “Heads Up” other that the Mag clamp in the picture.
The motor was a 78x92, Rayjay Turbo, Holly 750, VW case, S/F Heads, Pauter rockers, Pauter VW weld crank…. That set up ran 9.63 at 145 MPH in Pro Turbo. When the car was sold to Sören in 1990 it held the HotVws A/S and A/SX records for ET and MPH. Title: Re: Heads by Gene Brown! Post by: Sture S on October 18, 2017, 17:13:34 pm Dave, thanks for sharing!
I'm pleased to get some more info on the Heads and the Man behind :) Thanks! As I mention before, most of the engine are remaning, except for a few missing parts Sören or the owner after him have change the combo and drove a 69 x92 set up. Talked to Sören the other week and didn't remember what happened to the 78 crank. Dave i think I have read that you had bigger engine too - Did you ever put that one in The Blue? Did you ever run any Nitro oxide runs? Thanks! /Sture [attachment=1] |