elco twin heads

just curious but, where & who makes or made these elco twin heads anymore?....never even new about them until i saw them on that hotrod I posted.

 

http://images7.fotki.com/v109/photos/9/9586/90844/Dsc06498-vi.jpg

looks interesting as well....I got that picture from another H.A.M.B. member BTW

 

i guess i am not seeing what you are.... i can see the alternator on the ch***is, the what i ***ume is a flex drive cable, but i dont see anywhere in those pics where its driven FROM off of the engine... some sort of idler?

 

here we go....

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I dont really know what that is

 

Very sanitary alternator connection. I dont know if I would want the dual plug heads because of the dizzy. Lot of wires and connectors to mess with. The looks is awesome though.

 

ok... im seein it now... that third pic you posted,.,. its either backwards or the car is a right drive?

awesome setup tho

 

seems to be a idler pully setup,run off the belt,clever

 

fireing the 2 plug heads is the easy part;finding them is the hard part!

 

you can see here that the twin fire is secured with a set screw in the front cover.the twin fire dist. shaft is the same size as the flathead front cover.

 

Don Orosco from Monterey,Ca. had the ELCO TWIN SPARK heads recast and the quality in great. These heads require a Nash Twin 8 Distributor which has become very hard to come by. Last time I spoke with Don he had 3 sets left. If you want to talk to someone that has all the knowledge on these heads Don is your Guy. Hope this helps everyone.

 

I am bringing this old thread forward if for no other reason, discussion.

62 years on this earth and I saw my first twin set up this weekend at the Santa Cruz/Starbucks meet ...... just on absolutley beautiful setup.

Question for those familar with them. "So how well does the setup work?." ... again, a purely beautiful piece of speed equipment.

 

Here is a shot of Bert Letner's "Elco Twin" track roadster with Troy Ruttman behind the wheel,with my old friend Len Sutton out front at Carrell Speedway in 1948. The story I got on the heads, from the nephew of Ted Evans, was that Ted designed them and made the molds, and about the time they got in to production, Ted sold out to Bert Letner. ELCO stood for Evans and Letner, Not to be confused with Earl Evans the speed equipment manufacturer.

 

$1,950 is the price.