Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
If I was to fix your heads----first I would clean, then weld up those slots for the water below the spark plug, resurface, new guides, then new hardened seats, followed by a radius valve job, screw in studs,cut spring seats, assemble with longer valves/springs and pushrod guide plates---I would charge you well north of $1000 to do that and you would get no guarantee.

I have never had anyone unsatisfied with and valve train work I have done and they usually send there friends with there stuff. Pat charges far too little for what he does but I guess Michigan is a different market.

Now there is an idea I thought of too! Welding the part of the ports and shaving them back down to the head surface. You see, these heads are already built with new everything, valve job and all. They were just done with a 350 in mind because that is what the dude was gonna put them on until he found out that the 350 block was cracked. So he got the 400 and was gonna put them on it. Thats where I came in because he got too sick to finish and sold it all to me.

So, maybe I should just shut up, weld these suckers and get her back together!

On another note, I never put Techs advise down. I put some other guys who really didn't seem to read the whole thread to see where I am coming from. I simply asked Tech what he thought of my idea of E85. I have found a way to do it quite simply it seems too, but if I can just fix the problem that sits right in front of me, thats what I'm gonna do