Yea, it looks like im either going to try and find a set of nice irons locally for a fair price, or maybe cough up for a black friday special set on the speedmaster site in a couple of days. Realllllly was not wanting to spend that kind money though, and as you said, its not worth the money/effort to get these heads up to snuff for me...kinda annoyed, already killing the budget it seems now having to figure out another option for heads, but this just may be why this thing was so gutless in a heavy car lol
Bottom end looks okay. I tore this down last night very late in the garage, as getting the time is hard for me these days, so I really didn't do a close inspection. I will try to get out tonight, but on quick glance the cylinders do look good, just a bit of carbon up at the top that I removed with a finger nail on one cylinder and found no ridge.