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1954 Austin Healey 100/4 BN1
JME Cape Works Special

Asking Price: £164,950

The  JME BN1 Cape Works Special Healey

1954 Austin Healey 100/4 BN1

Registration Number: 672 YUJ

Chassis Number: BN1/156115

Classic cars from even the best marques can provide opportunity for enhancement, often because they were manufactured and priced for a broad market. So although the early E-Type was widely acclaimed as perfection when launched in 1961, sixty or so years later the likes of Eagle have re-engineered the car to a level of performance and excellence that would be unimaginable to the factory.

As for Porsche, seen by most as the epitome of German engineering, their 911 provided the basis many years after the 911 was launched for Singer to produce examples that are quite simply in a different league.

For the Austin Healey marque we have JME Healey of Warwickshire, the only credible equivalent to the likes of Eagle and Singer. 

The result of generations worth of knowhow is the masterpiece you see here, the ‘Cape works special Healey’.

This is neither a restored car nor a pastiche of the original. It is a completely re-engineered car. Like Eagle and Singer it uses the identity of an original, in this case a 1954 Right hand drive home market Healey 100/4 BN1, with the design and engineering drawing on the fifty years of experience with the marque since the founding of JME by John Everard. With three generations of the Everard family dedicated to the Healey marque, JME have developed a World-wide reputation for excellence.

All the more reason why we are delighted to be able to offer this Cape Healey ‘672 YUJ’ for immediate delivery. 

Presented in Porsche Graphite Blue over black leather upholstery and black wire wheels, this truly exceptional Healey is in as new order throughout and is very much ready to be enjoyed. Accompanied by a comprehensive specification sheet detailed below and invoices for all works carried out at JME totalling in excess of £170,000.00. 

The full JME Cape Works Special specification is as below;

Chassis & Inner Structure:

• New chassis, new front and rear bulkheads using hand made panels 

• Chassis strengthened and modified at eighteen identified points

• Uprated Sills

• Adjustable front shock plates

• Uprated engine mountings

• Works style front wishbone mount stiffeners 

• Uprated rear shock absorber mounts

• Rear anti roll bar mountings 

• AP racing floor mounted pedal box conversion 

•  100S front bulkhead supports 

•  Integrated oil cooler mountings 

•  Custom front air deflector panels 

•  Passenger side cold air vents

Suspension – Front:

•  Super Pro suspension bushes 

•  412lb front springs 

•  Uprated front shock absorbers 

•  Adjustable front camber 

•  All new front wishbones 

•  New spring pans and steering arms 

•  Needle roller top trunnion bearings 

•  One inch front anti roll bar, rose jointed for increased response 

•  Uprated wheels bearings and racing front hubs 

•  Competition high temperature bearing grease 

Suspension – Rear: 

•  Super Pro suspension bushes 

•  Competition leaf springs 

•  Adjustable rear shock absorbers rose jointed 

•  Three quarter anti roll bar. Rose jointed with custom linkages to rear axle

•  Rear anti tramp bars 

Brakes:

•  4-pot alloy front calipers 

•  Combination slotted/drilled 22mm front discs

•  100S rear disc setup

•  AP Racing floor mounted pedal box assembly 

•  AP Racing master cylinders along with adjustable balance bar

•  Hydraulic handbrake with fly off mechanism

•  Mintex carbon metallic pads front and rear 

•  Braided hoses and swivel unions front and rear 

•  Competition high temperature brake fluid

Rear Axle:

•  3.66:1 Rear axle ratio for improved top end speed

•  Racing up-rated half shafts 

•  Oil seal modification on axle casing 

•  Uprated wheel bearings and racing hubs

•  High deflection racing prop shaft 

Steering:

•  New DWR steering box

•  Custom collapsible column section 

•  Derrington steering wheel 

Engine:

•  2954 cc

•  92mm Pistons

•  Steel crank 

•  Steel con rods 

•  Full race aluminium cylinder head 

•  Racing compression ratio

•  Full race camshaft 

•  Custom cam followers and pushrods 

•  Vernier camshaft sprocket 

•  Aluminium oil sump and baffles 

•  Super damper front pulley

•  9.5” steel flywheel 

•  Steel head gasket 

•  1.65:1 roller rocker kit 

•  Oil cooler and braided fuel hoses 

•  Oil catch tank 

•  Fully lightened and balanced bottom end

•  123 Ignition system 

Gearbox:

•  BN2 standard ratio set, fully rebuilt. All new bearings, syncro hubs, baulk rings, selectors, seals and gaskets

•  BT7 side change bell housing 

•  Competition overdrive

Clutch:

•  AP Racing 9.5 clutch kit

•  AP Racing hydraulic concentric clutch release bearing

•  AP Racing clutch master cylinder, bradied hoses and swivel unions

Outer Body: 

•  All new lightweight aluminium BN1 body panels

•  Aluminium louvered bonnet

•  Louvers added to front wings 

•  Paint finish – Porsche graphite Blue 

•  Healey 100S bonnet pins and bonnet strap 

•  Fabricated wrap around windscreen and tailored deflector panels

Electrical:

•  All new wiring harness and associated components 

•  High torque starter motor

•  Powerlight charging system 

•  LED front headlamps 

•  Lightweight race battery 

Fuel System: 

•  H8 Carburettors 

•  68 Litre fuel tank 

•  Twin SU electronic fuel pump 

•  AN-6 fuel fittings throughout 

•  VDO fuel sender and gauge 

•  Uprated and internally routed throttle cable setup

Exhaust:

•  Full race side exit system, steel tubular exhaust manifold & silencer system to JMW specification 

Wheels and Tyres:

•  5.0 15” 72 spoke black wire wheels

•  185 70 R15 Avon CR6ZZ Tyres (hard compound) 

•  Three-eared wheel spinners 

Interior and upholstery: 

•  Tailored full black vaumol leather interior 

•  100/4 sport bucket seats – tailered in house

•  Dynamat and Dynalinered for sound proofing and refinement 

•  Tailored short style tonneau cover