Thread: Am I going to kill my 460?

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Thanks Dave.

If you do decide to let him work on it, suggest to pull the heads off with the motor IN the car. There's no reason to pull it completely out of the car to pull the heads off. That's a waste of labor and ends up costing you extra money. That being said, I agree with Dave about trying higher octane first. It's easier to go put 20 dollars worth of high octane fuel in it than to pay someone 20 hours worth of labor for no reason.

definately better to try some higher octane fuel first.... try gapping the plugs a hair wider too, the pertronix should be able to do it if you have a flamethrower coil to go along with it..... might clean up your driving a bit.... other than that you can try to back off the timing just a degree or two, that much wont hurt performance much... i'd try a few of the cheap things before putting a ton of labor into the car.... i dont know about your mechanic but with me... 20 hours of labor would cost you about $1600