Strange... the ones I get are bare and do not look like they came from the
same casting as the AMC heads.  The next time I get some in, I'll compare
them side by side with the AMC.

Cheers,

Jeff
www.vanagonparts.com

-----Original Message-----
From: The Bus Depot [mailto:vanagon@busdepot.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 5:37 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Cc: jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM
Subject: RE: Good Price on 1.9l heads? - Not just AMC...

> Actually, the "majority" of WBX'er cylinder heads sold in the
> USA are AMC. Over the last year or so, I've sold several sets
> of German built Kolbenschmidt cylinder heads.

Actually, despite the labeling, the Kolbenschmidts are made in Spain for
Kolbschmidt by AMC. It's an AMC head with Kolbenschmidt stampings. They are
not German, no matter what the box says.

However they were fully assembled by AMC, not shipped bare to the U.S., so
they are the same as my AMC heads (and do not have the suspect valve
guides).

I haven't seen the Kolbenschmidt-branded ones for a while, though. There
were a bunch of them around a couple of years ago (many of which actually
came right from the AMC factory).

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
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