Valve Guides for Oversized Valves and Lead-Free Gas?

don't think you need to worry about hardened seats in an iron head if your valves are modern stainless valves.

i'm saying this based on discussions i had when i had my head done. and of course the guy who did my head may be wrong

the gist of it was

modern stainless valves have valve heads made from a material this is so wildly different from the material of the iron head, that they do not microweld to the seat causing ware and what we eventually see as seat recession.

old original valves and iron head would microweld without protective lead compounds and the surfaces would degrade/erode away hence the added lead compounds to the petrol in the 50s 60s to stop that.

you might get seats done on the exhaust side if you are worried or if you need to true up the installed height of all exhaust valves. adding a seat allows you to pick how far into the chamber the valve head sits and ideally they would all be the same

finding seat inserts of any size should not be a problem. they make em for every imaginable size, having enough space in the head to fit some combinations of inlet and exhaust valve sizes may be.

if they can fit new guides to my hemi 6 head i can't see why they can't to a slant head that has more "meat" in it, in every dimension.

if it was a 70 mile per day daily maybe do the exhaust seat. if its a fun car you ain't gonna do the miles to cause the the kind of horror they use in advertisements for valve protection additives.

a shop that does heads should have no problem doing whatever you want within the confines of the chamber

i.e bigger inlet and some guides should be no problem provided the inlet does not interfere with the exhaust and that could include hardened inserts on both if you really feel the need

depends on your valves i guess or at least what they are made from

3000 rpm v8 3000/60seconds then by 8 its either 3 or 6 times a second that those valves hit the seat 4 stroke,... 3 times a second...... i give up..... its a lot just going to the shop and back :)
i think they will work harden the seat in an iron head pretty quick

Dave