Cylinder Head for a Sierra 1.8 CVH engine - where can I get

[ColinM50]

Cylinder head on my kit car went last weekend annd it seems to be beyond repair. It's a Ford Sierra 1.8 CVH engine and apparantly Ford no longer list it as a spare part. Anyone know where I can get a good one quickly please?

Alternative is I change the engine for a 2 litre twin cam out of another Sierra but I don't really want to start messing about with engine mounts and ECU's and stuff since due to me working abroad, I've got to pay a garage to do the work. So ideally it's a new head for the 1.8 CVH. Anyone any ideas please?

[ColinM50]

Thanks chaps and yes you're right, hen's teeth seems to be a good phrase. E-mailed half a dozen specialists on Friday and not one's come back.

So I'm now leaning towards replacing the whole engine. Been offered a rusty Sierra with a 2.0 DOHC so thinking of solving the problem that way.

But thanks for your ideas chaps.

There must be someone somewhere that's bought Ford's old stock of old CVH heads for 2 shillings and sixpence halfpenny and would love to offload one for a fiver. But as with all these things, it's finding them that's the problem.

[ColinM50]

Thanks Steve, yes he's got one off a scrapped car sitting there in his yard. £25 complete sold as is. In Barrow in Furness so it's going to cost me more to have it delivered than to buy it, but nevertheless it's progress. Thanks for the tip.