Zora's Coolest Head Design.

[Tom Bryant]

I just love those Arduns.

 

[henny496]

Ardun

Hello Tom
I know very little about Ardun's and would like to know more. Neat picture.
Tom

 

[Jack]

I know zip about Ardun heads ... were they OHV conversion heads for FlatHead Ford V8 blocks?
JACK:gap

 

[midyear]

I know zip about Ardun heads ... were they OHV conversion heads for FlatHead Ford V8 blocks?
JACK:gap

Yup,

My dad was into flatheads when I was a kid, I still know waayy too much about them. Those heads are now pretty high dollar parts. If memory serves me, they offered around a 50% HP increase on an old flathead.

Dennis

 

[67HEAVEN]

We've all heard of Zora. But, how about Yura?

http://www.ardun.com/ardun_histrory.htm

 

[Ol Blue]

I read an article sometime ago about Ardun heads that mentioned a representative from Chrysler was a frequent visitor to Duntov during his design period. Hmmmm. This went unreported until the writer interviewed the person that was doing the drawing for Zora. He had gone unnoticed for years because he didn't speak English, but supposedly verified that a Chrysler rep was talking with Zora about the Hemi head. Truth? who knows, but interesting story.

Ol Blue

 

[Jack]

Went to big car show at Myrtle Beach SC this weekend (18 MAR 05). Huge car count!Saw some really neat cars ... and a few rods that were downright FUGLY! Saw a rod with what I thought was a flathead ford ... it was really a sbc that had valve cover "tubs" that had flatheads bolted on top. It had a dummy distributor plugged into the old style chevy front oil fill tube ... emulating ford dist location ... FUGLY! Also ... another rod w/sbc with similar VC treatment ... but this one faking a Hemi ... also had a fake blower & hilborn inj but with a carb residing inside blower ... car has logo "grand illusion" ... to each his own but to me it was a fugly illusion. Both cars seemed to be quite old builds ... maybe the fake heads were popular at one time ... maybe they still are ... I dunno. Kinda wish I'd have taken the phone number for one car from Virginia that was for sale ... a very nice 67 Mercury Cougar with pretty good recent frame-ON resto ... red w/black vinyl top-interior, auto-console, air, matching 289 ... they were asking $9800. Many vettes there ... those for sale asked ridiculous $.
JACK:gap

 

[John Mcgraw]

I read a couple of years ago. that someone had started producing ARDUN heads again. If I remember right, the price was going to be about $15 K for a set.
There is just something about a flathead with a set of ARDUN heads on it ......

 

[Tom Bryant]

Here tis. Many improvement were made over the originals but are still the same basic part.
Only $13,950.00.

http://www.ardun.com/




Tom