Help me find the umph in my 360

65 Cuda 340 said
I had less than 50 miles on my then new Indy LAX heads (67 Barracuda 360) when all of a sudden had a horrible knocking noise. Got a little quieter, and I was less than five miles from home, so I just drove it home. Pulled the valve covers, saw that the intake valve in the #7 cylinder was stuck open, so I removed that head, expecting the worst. Barely a scratch on the piston, and the valve seat was OK, but the valve looked like this:

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Took a chance and only removed the one head. Got a new valve from Indy, machine shop lightly honed the guide to proper clearance, I put it back together and it's been running fine since. And this was almost a dozen years ago. So maybe there's hope for you. :thumbsup:

Another LAX valve issue, when My Bud pulled the 340 out of His AAR, He stuck a 408 stroker with those heads back under the 6bbl setup(which was already running mid/lower 12's). Valve came down & bent, luckily didn't break anything, locks sheared...they sent Him new locks & a valve stating they suspected the hardening of those locks. Been running OK since.