{"id":1911,"date":"2013-05-25T11:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T11:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2013-05-25T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T11:51:15","slug":"form-and-practicality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"form and practicality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/B20-s-1-and-s-4-heads-revd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"two heads - B20 s.1 and s.4\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/B20-s-1-and-s-4-heads-revd-1024x899.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>two heads &#8211; B20 s.1 and s.4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the life of the Aurelia there were many changes to the car. In fact, from the s. 1 to s. 6 B20, it is hard to find components that were not changed, mostly small bits here and there as all the major parts were revised. Some of these changes were due to learning more about what was needed for a part to work. This can be seen in a comparison of the engine heads from a s.1 B20 from 1951 with a s.4 B20 of 1954\/55.<\/p>\n<p>The most striking difference is in the water passages &#8211; in the earlier head, they are precisely shaped, as drawn by an engineer, and carefully and formally arranged. Quite nicely so. A few years later, a different picture emerges &#8211; the passages in the s.4 head are located slightly differently, and shaped practically. Probably easier to cast, and likely more effective.<\/p>\n<p>Its a small item, buried away inside the engine and no one will ever see it. But its one of the many changes that tell of the dialogue at that time between Lancia&#8217;s engineers and their production. Its a dialogue that goes on today, still. Form and practical &#8211; two ideas that need each other, as neither does well without the other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; two heads &#8211; B20 s.1 and s.4 &nbsp; Over the life of the Aurelia there were many changes to the car. In fact, from the s. 1 to s. 6 B20, it is hard to find components that were not changed, mostly small bits here and there as all the major parts were revised. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aurelia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}