What heads?

[ertoys]

Ok guys everything has changed! Thank you all for your input, it is much appreciated

I had my cousins heads checked out and there were problems with them. Valve guides were to tight and it would have cost me about $725.00 (including buying the heads) to have them ready to bolt on my car.

I gave the heads back to my cousin and ordered the Dart Pro 1's, which is what I was looking at originally anyway.

Ed

[graycamaro]

How did the valve guides get too tight? How much did your cousin want for the heads? Did they need new parts valves or springs? Here are some machine work price for what the heads need if my shop did them $54.00 Mill, $48.00 Size Guides, $220.00 Competition Level Valve Job (includes teardown, cleaning, magnaflux, assembly). Total $322.00 in machine work. Just wanted to compare to the shop that you had look at the heads and see if our prices are high or low. They usually vary depending on where you live.

[ertoys]

I appreciate it! My cousin wanted $400.00 for the heads and my buddy works at a machine shoop here in St Louis, it was gonna cost me $300.-350. for the machine work needed. So I was looking at $750.00 and thats keeping the old springs, for a set of the first series dart iron heads (not iron eagle) or buy brand new aluminum pro 1s for $1200.00. I went with the pro 1s and they will be here tomorrow.

[graycamaro]

yeah you made the right choice going with new heads. It will be well worth the cost. Nice to see are cost are around the same.

James

[ertoys]

One of my heads arrived damaged today,someone was kind enough to drop one of the heads directly on a corner and smashed that corner (damned UPS!)
But no worries, one call to Summit and they sent another out today so no problem since it will be a week or two till I have time to install anyway.