Another set of W2 heads that leaked
Is only quibble on the chambers.
What have you found otherwise?
I forget the exact year but it was probably sometime in the early 1990’s Chrysler was selling W2 heads for a hundred bucks each. It could have been 1988 or 89 now that I think about it.
Anyway, you could buy as many as you wanted at that price. I was going to buy some and my dad talked me out of it. His theory (he was right) is that Chrysler was going to come out with a better head and the W5 is what we got.
That first run of heads were a better design as far as the casting and how they put it together than the heads they released later on.
As PRH said above, the first run of the “new” W2 castings didn’t even have those support ribs along the bottom row of head bolts.
I know some of those heads didn’t have the dowel pin holes drilled deep enough, or I was told that they drilled the dowel holes and then did the surface on the head and on some of the castings that had to take more off to get them in shape and the holes were now not deep enough.
Not sure if I believe that one or not.
I‘m also not a fan of some of the newer chambers. The OC heads take a beating but it‘s way better than most people think because the OC chamber takes a beating in magazines and forums.
The W5 chamber is straight GARBAGE. You can fix it but it takes some work.