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The reason you're finding old, "high performance" iron heads so easy is that very few people want them any more unless they're building some period perfect, numbers matching car. Several guys have pointed out that you're going to spend as much or more buying a set of old iron heads and then having them done right than you'd spend on a new set - go back and read Mike's Post #6 again and think about what he's saying. Now the guys selling will be telling you just the opposite, how much better their old double hump heads are than the new stuff, but that's bogus. I wouldn't invest the money in an old, unknown set of iron heads but it's your money.

Originally Posted by rspears

The reason you're finding old, "high performance" iron heads so easy is that very few people want them any more unless they're building some period perfect, numbers matching car. Several guys have pointed out that you're going to spend as much or more buying a set of old iron heads and then having them done right than you'd spend on a new set - go back and read Mike's Post #6 again and think about what he's saying. Now the guys selling will be telling you just the opposite, how much better their old double hump heads are than the new stuff, but that's bogus. I wouldn't invest the money in an old, unknown set of iron heads but it's your money.

Ain't it the truth, Roger? Those old cast iron production heads are only good for ballast. The technology that was used to produce them is 40-50 years old.

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