Cast vs. Aluminum heads and bang for buck..

I’m doing some j’s right now.

They will def cost more that what you could buy import aluminum heads for, and the owner wants some quench out of a 340, so it’s going to get some expensive custom quench dome pistons too.

The quench area depth varied .040, and after equalizing that and the valve drop, one head still had one big chamber, and one that was 3cc smaller.
They’re within 1cc now....... but that type of **** just eats up time.


Yeah, that stuff is a real time killer. Was the chamber off from the casting or was it machined incorrectly at one time in its life?

.040 seems like a bunch. The last head I did were only off .010 across both heads.

I got lucky.