I agree with Mikey If there are original heads worth spending a couple of hundred $$$ on it difinately camel humps.
I would have the guides made and install some 202 and 160 stainless valves and hardened seats. André Probably worth just sticking the money into the heads to have the work done now that you have them in your pocession unless you wanted to go to vortech heads or are willing to take a step down in performance with a differnt head. The cheapest way to go is probably have them done. mikey ----- Original Message ----- From: J. Brady Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Chevelle-List] Bad News On Heads... HELP. Well gang, As recommended by some of the wise men here, I dropped my 327 double-hump heads off for a magnaflux before beginning to install them on my motor. I bought them used and have never used them- The guy called today and said they have no cracks (good news) BUT he said they need new valves and will definitely need guides.. He gave me a price of $80 to install the valve guides. My questions are, I'm already out $50 for the flux- Do I pour the funds into these heads to have them redone? Can I do the valve and guides myself? It wasn't mandatory for me to keep the original heads for this motor or to keep an "all original" motor by any means, but I don't want to spend unnecessary funds if there's a better decision to be made. Please help- I just bought new springs and retainers for these heads, and now I'm stumped (and actually pretty PO'ed). I just bought the Crane Powermax 260-2 cam kit for this motor, and right now I was planning on using a stock manifold and a 600CFM carb just to get me back up and on the road for this summer. Any help would be greatly appreciated- Jim '66 Malibu __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------- ew topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
