Project Cheap & Nasty Updated With Back Story

Cheap & nasty's cylinder head. It looks a lot worse than it is. I'm not using the 66 casting. I don't even know what year this one is, but it's a revised chamber head. But the reason I'm using it is because The guides and seats are pretty nice. I knurled the guides a while back. I know that's divisive, because there are two camps regarding that. Some say it's ok to knurl and some say it's a short lived, easy fix. The Comp 901 spring is what I plan on running. So I figure with such light spring pressure and a very mild cam it will last a while. Besides, remember cheap & nasty? I do plan on getting it milled just enough to clean it up. All I plan on doing is lapping the valves in. I'm even going to use some blue Viton umbrella seals. Cheap & nasty.
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You don't need a machine shop to clean up that head surface. Use the concrete floor or use the side of a 8-12" grinding wheel. A liberal dose of wd40 will help displace the swarf.

It's not right by today's standards. Or yesterday's for that matter. Back when all we had was rent money and book money (school) we fixed plenty of engines using farmer tricks of days gone by.