Rebuilding motor, need suggestions

[Kracka]

Used Evo 8 motor... From Evom.

Hopefully its good. For the same price, his motor could have been built brand new including new valves/seats and guides and it would have had Mivec seeing his is a Evo 9.

What seemed a little sketchy was this from the owner:
Ouch. Seems sketchy already to me...plus all the modification and swapping of parts it's going to require... Good luck to you, but my guess is you just cost yourself more money by the time this is all said and done while also adding extra headache. I hope it all works at favorably as you're planning though.

[C3L1CA]

I'd be neverous the head is bad on your motor but by getting it checked out hopefully if anything is wrong they can get it fixed.

Good luck on the build! Should be cool when it's all done

[Kracka]

I'd be neverous the head is bad on your motor
This, especially with the history of that car and heads.

[tmosser]

Well I talked to chucke and he said he put a new head on my car. So I guess we'll see when I have the shop test it.

Are the evo 8 and 9 valves interchangeable? If so the head I got with the motor has fresh valvetrain including valves so if they are ill probably throw the new valves on my ix head as well. Than seals come with the oem gasket set so if the head isnt warped or anything serious itll pretty much be a brand new head when its done.

[scheides]

imho the head needs to be gone through by a machine shop, just like we talked about.

I wouldn't take parts from a perfectly good head but that's just me; I'd keep it as whole as possible to get the most resale value out of it.

You are bordering on the line of 'doing it wrong' so be very careful. Remember to keep it simple.

Speaking of headgaskets, you might want to look into how you run an IX head on an VIII block, I'm pretty sure you just use the IX headgasket but I do not recall for sure.

[tmosser]

What do you mean doing it wrong? As I did post im having tc automotive in Mankato go through my ix head. Id like to take the gsc springs and retainers from the new head though.

Yep use a ix head gasket.

[Kracka]

If it's a good built VIII head, leave it alone and sell it as-is. Once you start stripping it down it'll become worth no more than any other used VIII head. Cams are one thing, but leave the valves and springs alone.

[tmosser]

How much would you guys say the built head is worth? Next to new with a valve job gsc s3 cams gsc springs and retainers etc with paperwork. I guess I just dunno what itd all be worth.

[evotuner]

1200+ Maybe get 1500. Hard to say