[Shotimes] Curious on headwork, valve job worth it on this car? SLIDES?

[Alan Fanning]

Still planning to shave them, huh?

Well, the way you determine how much is needed is not by guessing. Your
machine shop will have a precision straight edge that can be placed along
the mating surface of the head in different directions. In combination with
a set of feeler gages, they can tell if and how much the head is distorted.
Also, when the head is milled, they don't just take it all off at once. They
can take a couple passes over it and tell as they go when "enough" has been
reached. But if they need to take much off to get it flat, your head is
toast and you're wasting your money.

Also, about those gaskets - do you see that there is some doubt in the minds
of your fellow SHOtimers that the copper gaskets are the way to go?

Regards,

    Alan


Frank Costa wrote:

> Just curious on some info for doing heads...
> Any exact numbers? I just want it cleaned and shaved flat. I dont want to make
> it an interference engine by any stretch...i was just curious if their was a
> specfification to follow in regards to how much you can shave .....i want the
> bare minimum to removing any possible warping on a 3.0 head that has been
> sitting on my bench flat for months...
> 
> As we all know, my 3.2 blew a head gasket. I am gonna put the copper
> headgaskets on it...but i was curious as too whether or not this would cause
> and issue with intereference...from what i hear the copper gaskets are thinner
> and create higher compression.
> 
> I was also curious on valve seal replacement....any part numbers i should look
> at? And valve guides? Replaceable? Valves? Are their any race valves or bigger
> valves at a reasonable cost? I hear about SI valves?