My home inspection of Speedmaster heads

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  • ProMaxx, Edelbrock, Trick Flow, SM should all be inspected before use, correct?
Lots of ways to skin a cat. I showed mine. Please add your ways of how you inspect heads at home. I started doing my own heads over 25 years ago and never had a failure. I'm confident if I have a problem with my SM heads, it won't be due to my failed inspection. :)
I will say my trickflows had some chips in a couple ports (could have been cleaned without disassembly) and the valve spring heights were off by about .010-.015 which seems to be common. It was enough to put me on the edge of enough seat pressure with my cam so I shimmed a few up, oh and I did not like the shims they used so I bought some from pac springs with a smaller inner diameter for the guide bosses. I think it is pretty much established by now but no one should just bolt on a set of heads without checking them.