Description
This car represents a 1961 AC Ruddspeed. A great amount of time and care has been taken to re-create the AC Hawke as close as possible to the original AC RS. The Zephyr engine has undergone a Ruddspeed stage 4 conversion.? This engine is newly built at great expense The AC has an original Raymond Mays 12 port aluminium head made by Rubery Owen and Co LTD of Bourne. The engine has been over bored and stoked to 2880cc. This has been achieved by using CF Bedford con, rods and, oversized, Chrysler, 225 pistons. The engine and flywheel have been blue printed and balanced. The cylinder head has had extensive head work with the addition of high-quality US valve springs and oversized, valves. Roller rockers have been adapted to allow the use of a high lift camshaft. New genuine old stock Italian made Weber 40 DCOE carburettor’s complete the cylinder head. Furthermore, the AC has an electric fan, extractors, twin pipe exhausts, period resonators. This car was previously registered in the UK plate no JYH390F.
