Dan Price Porous castings Bad bad bad

[lazlobassett]

Well, I hate to write this but folks should know. I bought a B motor with a cragar OHC head that has a Dan Price Side cover, really cool finned aluminium. Nice, right? Well it is a porous casting a pisses oil all over when things warm up a bit. I called Dan, not always the affable guy. He said yeah they are all like that. i asked what do we do with this? He said he could send me another but it would leak too. then he said he had more cast by a different place but I'd have to wait a month or so until he machnied the raw castings. i said no problem, send me a casting and I'll machine it, no worries. he said sure. Then I asked if he had head gaskets for a cragar head, yes, they are 155.00.

I emailed him my info, said the gasket wasn't in the budget right now. he replied that since I wasn't going to buy the gasket, he wouldn't send me a new cover.

I think that stinks.

Be careful. He has some really nice parts and I have a bunch of them on my B but I'll be damned if I'll ever have another.

Learning is expensive.

Matt Picaro
Cream Ridge, NJ
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