Old School vs Magnum on 86 Dodge W100

Your pricing for EQ's is right. Same with the MA-X heads. They are bigger-flowing, more performance oriented head, so beyond what you need for just a basic rebuild head.

The issue with rebuilt heads is the quality. You ought to take time to do a long search here on 'rebuilt heads' or such similar topics and see if you can identify a reliable rebuilder; I think that was what wyrmrider was referring to earlier. What has you local shop advised?

BTW, I've seen a few cams with 'pits' in the lobe surfaces that were just casting voids and they were fine in operation. But it's hard to judge what you have without pix.