Vulcan 1 cylinder head

[pt5win30]

Hello! Looking for some help picked this head up can’t find anything after searching. What’s the story on it? When was it made? What compression ratio? No hole for a stock distributor alignment pin. Could a stock distributor be made to fit? Any info would be greatly appreciated

 

[Flathead]

Looks like it was cast to be able to add the distributor pin hole, just mark it and drill it.

 

[nkaminar]

You may have a hard time finding a gasket to fit. The stock distributor may not work because of the plug locations. Otherwise, I like it.

 

[PC/SR]

Combustion chamber looks like a repo Winfield I have. Hard to tell the CR without ccing the chamber but it looks bigger than the 7-1 Winfield. Just a WA guess, somewhere around 6-1. Don't really need the distributor pin hole. Time it the regular way aligning the contact points then mark the pin location and drill.

 

[jeepguy1948]

The only way you will know what the cr is will be to “CC” the chambers. Anything else is nothing better than a guess

 

[Jim Brierley]

It was made in the 70's in the San Bernardino area. There was a Model A guy that owned a parts store there and he produced a few performance parts. I think his last name was James???

Most any Model A gasket will fit, place it on the head and see that the gasket doesn't hang out into the chamber.

 

[alexiskai]

Definitely looks "inspired by" the Winfield heads, down to the plug location and (eyeballing it) being threaded for 14mm plugs.

 

[katy]

Looks like it was cast to be able to add the distributor pin hole, just mark it and drill it.

Ditto

Is that aluminum?