dick
882's are bad to crack anyway. bout 50% wind up in the trash bin.
jb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>; "Skip & Joyce
Higginbotham" <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: You never know what you got if you didn't build it yourself.
> When I bought my Camaro it was all togther,
> running, and had made a few passes down the local
> drag strip befoe it's teenage owner slid off the
> road and brought the car to an abrupt stop
> against a couple of huge oak trees. I was told
> that the 4 bolt 350 was a fresh rebuild with
> "new" 882 GM heads. When I got the motor apart
> last week, it sure enough was a fresh rebuild.
> The cross hatching was still clear as day on the
> cylinder walls. But, the "new" heads (which were
> still in fresh gray casting metal) turned out not
> to be so new. When we dipped them at the machine
> shop, what shows up, but three drilled, pinned
> and welded cracks, and one un-drilled, un-pinned
> and un-welded crack - right through a valve seat.
> One head good, one head trash. Fortunately for
> me, the machinist had a set of matching heads
> that the previous owner had scrapped as a pair
> when he discovered one head with some serious
> cracks. One was trash and one was perfect. The
> machinist gave me the good head. All's well that
> end's well, but it goes to show, unless you took
> all the parts out of a box and built it yourself
> (or a very trusted friend did it for you) you
> never know what you got.
>
>
>
> =====
> Dick J
> In East Texas
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