Fun day! Swung out to MAP's new shop to pick up a small pile of parts and then up to Wagemon's to drop most of them off. MAP & Wag's really came through for me--I yanked the head wednesday night and delivered it Thursday, and as of 5pm today (Friday) the head was cleaned up and back in my hands
Here's what we figured out: valves and seats appear to be prematurely worn. All 8 exhaust valves were bent, just slightly. Lots of valves prematurely worn on the stem end. Spring seats are all deformed slightly, bending down all around the outside edge.
Out with the 'old':
In with the new parts:
-GSC 5042 Beehive valvespring/retainer kit
-8 new Supertech +1mm intake valves
-8 new Supertech +1mm exhaust valves
-16 new OEM valve seals/spring seats.
More bad news? One of my cam journals shows signs of slight scoring. They believe one cam cap is slightly out of round due to my dumb-ass over-torquing the cam cap bolts with an inaccurate torque wrench (read: buy good tools and the right tools!) This cam cap is also over-drilled and double-helicoiled thanks to yours truely and really the only fix for all of this is a full line hone or a new head core. I'm in over my head here so I have no choice but to trust what I'm being told, and I don't like what I'm being told
I had a set of GSC S2 cams ready to drop in but I couldn't bring myself to risk them. I asked them to just put the Kelford 214-B's back in and clean it up as best they could.
For those keeping track, here's where we're at:
-head trashed (but usable)
-block trashed (but fixable with sleeving)
-FML.
So yea, gonna be big decision time pretty soon here but for now I'm off to drink a case of Grain Belt and then put the car back together in the morning.
I got a nice set of MAP's H11 headstuds; these things are bad-ass! Anyone interested in a lightly-used set of ARP headstuds for CHEAP let me know!
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