Sorry, I miss read that. I also thought it was pretty straight forward on the questions.
There ya go!
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Sorry, I miss read that. I also thought it was pretty straight forward on the questions.
I’m not sure what a W9 intake cost
My beginning numbers are posted in the Speedmaster head post. I haven’t flowed a stock on lately as there’s no reason to do so.
Base cost to port an Edelbrock or copy is 800.00 base cost plus a small cost for hardened shims and seals. If upgrading to bigger better valves customer pays for valves upfront. Valve job is included in price as is valve guide clearancing if needed. 50.00-80.00 for spark plug clearancing if desired.
Flow numbers with a 2.055 valve (approximately 200.00) are in the 303-305 range.
Ive never flowed a W8 head.
I think that’s everything
There ya go
Rat Bastid
Dunamis Metron
DUDE, you NEED to raise your prices. You work WAY TOO cheap.
For that money I’ll send my stuff over to you and you can do it.
I did raise my prices. I used to do heads and intakes for 600.00.
Rat Bastid
Dunamis Metron
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang. You could go up some more and still be the cheapest guy around.
For a set of heads I’m not even thinking about picking up my grinder for less than 1500 bucks and intakes for 1k.
Like I said, I can send my stuff to you and make better money than doing it myself lol
It isn't as much hard work as it is tiring but how much is your time worth? I lucked out and Radar's shop traded 3 electric die grinders for the work on my heads. I got a deal.
I'm sending referrals your way. $800?
If I can get $12 - $1500, can we work out a deal? lol
I think it's great you provide a service that's very affordable and effective.
NoCar340
The Original Partstitute
Hey, I recognize that photo! It was taken on my basement bench. I'm glad to see others find it useful. FYI, that's the fuel-gauge needle from my '69 Valiant in the upper left.
How about some semi-machined pre-W2 prototypes? I thought these were possibly Li'l Red development heads due to the functional exhaust crossover, but they're not. Bill Richardson, who was involved in the AAR-T/A and Trans Am racing programs, referred to them as W1s and said they were part of the Trans Am program. He also wondered how I ended up with these. He said less than 25 pair were cast and up until mine appeared, he was certain he knew where they'd all gone--machined, developed, and used. The casting number is 3577634.
I was going to have them machined and use them until I found out what they were. Now they're dust collectors. Would love to get them into the right hands, be it an owner of an original SCCA racer from the era or somewhere they'd be displayed with other SCCA stuff. It would kind of be a shame to machine them after 50 years.
Rat Bastid
Dunamis Metron
Hey, I recognize that photo! It was taken on my basement bench. I'm glad to see others find it useful. FYI, that's the fuel-gauge needle from my '69 Valiant in the upper left.
How about some semi-machined pre-W2 prototypes? I thought these were possibly Li'l Red development heads due to the functional exhaust crossover, but they're not. Bill Richardson, who was involved in the AAR-T/A and Trans Am racing programs, referred to them as W1s and said they were part of the Trans Am program. He also wondered how I ended up with these. He said less than 25 pair were cast and up until mine appeared, he was certain he knew where they'd all gone--machined, developed, and used. The casting number is 3577634.
I was going to have them machined and use them until I found out what they were. Now they're dust collectors. Would love to get them into the right hands, be it an owner of an original SCCA racer from the era or somewhere they'd be displayed with other SCCA stuff. It would kind of be a shame to machine them after 50 years.
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IIRC, the T/A head was classified as W0 and what you have pictured looks like (as you said) W1 stuff and it went on from there.
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