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Subject:Re: Oops, re:head repair
From:David Brodbeck
Date:Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:51:30 -0400

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Chuck Hill wrote:

> Earlier today I stated that diesel heads were made of cast iron.  They
> are in fact made of aluminum.  I apologize if I misled anyone about
> this.

We were all hoping against hope that you'd actually found a source for
cast-iron ones.  With a cast iron head these engines would be darn near
indestructable. ;)

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si