Mopar 400 block 8 sleeves

OK so I started checking the heads. They were NEW SR heads from Indy, ported but never run, new heads basically. I was shocked how bad they were.
To put it short, I had to re do all seats and ream the guides as they were too tight. Seven valves you could see light thru when closed, the seats were egg shaped. Seat height was also all over the place. Took a lot of work to have them sorted.

Now I'm starting to understand all the complaints about Indy quality I saw online.
Cost me a lot of money to have them fixed, planned to get vacuum pump but this problem fully consumed my budget for extras.

These were much worse than any Edelbrock pair I saw so far, but Edelbrocks still were not ready to put on engine out of the box. Is there such a thing as head that you bolt on just like that? Very disappointing.