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    Mine too @andybishop

    One of the differences between B B+ was definitely waisted stems.

    I might have the bill of sale and his literature still. We used to do bill's website decades ago before he sadly left us true gent

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    Quote Originally Posted by therealnovaboy View Post
    Think the A's are flowed heads B's are flowed + bigger inlet valve and B+'s are flowed + bigger inlet and exhaust.

    If you put pictures up I might be able to suggest if it's a BB or not.
    Il try get some picture this week, might need to clean it out a bit as its a bit minging and might be hard so see what work has been done. my valves are 35mm and 31mm but not waisted stem, so being larger than standard would suggest it is a B head, but il get some pictures up so we can be sure.

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    Mine too @andybishop

    One of the differences between B B+ was definitely waisted stems.

    I might have the bill of sale and his literature still. We used to do bill's website decades ago before he sadly left us true gent

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    What literature of his do you have? would be interesting to see, any chance you could scan in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by wwinstanley View Post
    What literature of his do you have? would be interesting to see, any chance you could scan in?
    Everything, printed versions and electronic (not just vaux either!)

    Got some cracking photos of his workshop and demo products too. It's been a while... Let me raid the archives!

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    worth noting that a while before Bill passed he had Ivor Searle doing his work, so they might not have marked up the heads as such.

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    @stuart that's correct, I forgot that!

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    Not all the 8v heads were marked.

    I have some of the paperwork too. It contains various magazine articles where they have compared various head tuning specialists. Blydenstein came out on top. Also one where they get 20bhp from a bb head, chip and a back box on a 1.4 mpi 8v Astra. I'll see if I can find them.

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    WOW, never knew fastcar did proper articles!

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    they were pretty good until they set off to become max power

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