65 Barracuda daily driver

explain "the head was already ground down" please and thank you.

As you can see that pad under the exhaust port had already been ground down by a previous owner to clear the manifold. The engine was in a '68 Dart before and the manifold is a bit different. The early manifolds appear to need more room, so I ground it down more.

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