Thread: Got a cylinder head today

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I was getting despirate for a new head ( time is running out at school ) so I went to the localish u pull it ( which is 2 hours away ) and went searching, really wasn't finding anything, getting bummed out, so for the sake of doing it of it, I popped the hood on a car I thought was just a 5.0 crown vic or somthing but, I quickly noticed it was a 200/250 I6, so I started to pull it ( the head ) out, about 1.5 hours later, it was out. the car was a 1979 Mercury Zephyr ( Ford Fairmont ). the guy who rung me up, charged me $34.99 for everything, the exhaust manifold, head, " Power By Ford " Valve cover, and a DSII distributor hold down, he cheated with the price list and charged me for the cyl head/ exhaust manifold as a whole, so he saved me $10. found a few other things, I'll go back after but I'll put that in a diffrent thread...

Really good deal for all that!! Sorry those heads here were junkers.

good luck!

Originally Posted by FFR428

Really good deal for all that!! Sorry those heads here were junkers.

good luck!

yeah, don't worry about those heads. thanks for checking on them tho.




I was also going to buy another turbocharger I could hook up easier but, couldn't find 1, I looked at 1 out of a Turbocharged Volvo but the turbo was wayyy to small, and it was set up wrong

Now send that sucker to Erik and let him do some hogging, porting, and best of all some time on that flow bench!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Now send that sucker to Erik and let him do some hogging, porting, and best of all some time on that flow bench!!!!

I would, but right now, time is very tight, and it's almost a waste of time, porting these log heads. the Aluminum heads are getting released in late august, and the best flowed log head, had a machined off log manifold, ported from that side too ( cant do that with the integral manifold ) , JUST matched what the aluminum head flowed at, without any work and pretty much as cast, the aluminum head could be worked over I'm shure, and increase the flow # even more

Oh yeah, the Merc Zephyr I got the head from, the front fenders have neat cable controlled side vents, probably for interior venting. I might pull the fenders, when I go back, cut them out and graft them into the falcon's fenders, and make it somehow ( they do it with vac, so could probably be done with boost ) to have them open when the boost comes up, and have secondary intake tubes coming in from them, or at least 1 side. I have to repair the falcon fenders anyway..

I'm glad you finally got a head....and you cant beat that price... heads here at our junkyards are $75 a piece.... good luck gettin that baby together.... remember that even though time is tight not to start rushing and getting sloppy

Originally Posted by thesals

I'm glad you finally got a head....and you cant beat that price... heads here at our junkyards are $75 a piece.... good luck gettin that baby together.... remember that even though time is tight not to start rushing and getting sloppy

I know. I'm cleaning the head up today, to save time, dissasembeling tomorrow. I'v got 12 new valves, so I won't have to cut the 1's in the head. should go togther ( the head ) in a week or so. I'm going to bring the Turbo home, and fabricate the 2 plates I have to, for the internal wastegate bypass, and the 3 bolt flange where the turbo used to bolt to the manifold, I have to make a flange that has a 2" pipe coming off it.

cool sounds like a good sunday afternoon project

just started to pull some things off the head, I don't have a valve spring compressor so I can't pull valves, unless I cut the springs, which I might do anyway ( have 3 sets from other heads of stockers, and a set of Clay Smith engeneering dual springs I bought to handle the .495 lift )

EPA and DEP won't like me, I'm using gas to clean the head, working good I'm going out to remove the valves, and after that, I'll probably hook up my sand blaster and blast it, I can't stand the 1 at school.

16 inch piece of 1 1/2 by 1 1/2 angle iron ,a 1/2 inch hole for the rocker stud ,a 3/4 inch hole for the top of valve and a little screwdriver and magnet or needle nose to pluck the keepers out.
15 mins work and a free tool!!!!!!
My sig may point to my current location of cali,but I came from the backwoods old boy school of Missouri,if you need it ,make it,if you dont have it,make it .Even if you can buy it ,make it

there are no individual rocker studs, it's all on a shaft. what I did is just cut coils out of the springs, removed them, and then supported the back of the valve with a peice of wood, and then tapped the retainer down. I only pulled 2 valves ( both from #1 ) because they were such a hassle W/O the compressor, but that's ok, can remove them at school.

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Nice ,another "old boy" tactic I can add to my arsenal!!!!!!I have a old head in the garage ,I may just go practice this for entertainment value
I like to know those tactics ,just in case ,but tend to use the correct tools when possible nowadays.
It just seems to keep ol Murphy away when I use the proper tools