indentify a cosworth f1 head

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Hello, I would like to to ask about this head,

I bought this head for a project 7 yeard ago, it is a cosworth head but i would like to know what is this exacly.
It was interesting to me because it have not fingers, it is direct acting with buckets and neumatic spring.

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Someone know what it this?

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looks like a Ford Cosworth VJ Zetec-R v10 head

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Might be the Stewart Ford Cosworth Zetec V10 engine which was slightly tuned, specifically developed by cosworth
for Stewart. (1997).

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One too many cylinders there..
Are you sure its F1?
& not an AMG-type road unit?
Is it one of a pair from a 12, or singular from a 6?
Do the major dimensions/fastener pattern match known production blocks?
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J.A.W. wrote:One too many cylinders there..
Are you sure its F1?
& not an AMG-type road unit?
Is it one of a pair from a 12, or singular from a 6?
Do the major dimensions/fastener pattern match known production blocks?
too many cylinders? why?

clearly a 5 cylinder head.
one head of a v10 engine.
Cosworth ran many V10 engines.

Identified as a cosworth head.

why would it be a 6-cyl or 12-cylinder AMG head which is of another manufacturer and is missing a cylinder to be v17 or i-6?


The Zetec - R VJ block was a pneumatic valve head/block.

Ask me it would be a Ford Cosworth Zetec blok out of either a Minardi or a Stewart, perhaps when Stewart became Jaguar.
If the head is hard to identify because of missing codes or something like that it could be an indication it actually is part of the custom-made cosworth blocks for Stewart GP, which were slightly tuned/different to the 'normal' Zetec V10 F1 engines.
In 1999, Ford bought Cosworth and built a 'new' V10. Could even be this one, but it's def. not older then 1997 and not newer than 2001.

The exhaust ports on the block shown on the OP seem just 'minimally' more 'oval' compared to the 'normal' Zetec-R VJ v10 (though that may be optical illusion).
That could indicate thus to either the Stewart GP blocks (as a custom cosworth engine was the deal back then), most notorious the 1998 ones, or the overhaul in 1999/2000 when ford took over cosworth.
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Yes, you are quite right!
Oops! Very embarrassing..
Sorry.. I must get new specs &/or learn how to count..
..Now its 5, F-I-V-E fingers per hand, right?
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(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

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Any laser scans done? Any point clouds? Could you share an ASC2 file please?