FINALLY; it runs with some authortity!!!!

Good question...

I bought this head off ebay; a pig in a poke. Lucky for us, (Freddie and myself) the guy selling it was honest.

He said it was ported and had 1.75"/1.5" valves in it.

I paid him $700.00 for it, sight unseen.

When it arrived here (the seller said that it came out of a Dodge Van in a junkyard in Las Vegas!!!!) I took it to the machine shop that was doing all of our machine work (boring and balancng, etc...)

He magnafluxed it and couldn't find any cracks; pressure tested it, looked at the porting job and said i looked pretty good to him... he builds racing engines exclusively at that ahop. ) He tested it for flatness and found less than a thousandth of an inch variation from one end to the other, so, not wanting to make the combustion chambers any smaller than they were, I declined a clean-up milling. He agreed... said it had never been milled.

It weighs 84 pounds!!!

He gound the valves, putting a 3-angle valve job on it, using the valves that came with it, and back-cut them.

It's a drool tube head, which means you can get the lifters out of the engine with the head on. I guess you can't do that with the non-drool-tube head, although it (the later head) reportedly has a better combustion chamber.

We put a new set of 340 springs on it, with some pretty weak inners.

That gives us about 135 pounds on the seat and a little over 300 pounds, open.

Bet you're sorry you asked... LOL!


I'm never sorry I asked, I'm always willing to learn! It seems the cork on the power when it comes to 225 slants is the cylinder head, and I'm curious on how to make it flow as well as possible on the smallest dollar possible. Lol