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Picked up the heads. $350.00 Here's the comments on the si valves from the machine shop: The Good: Stainless steel swirl polished valves usually cost twice of what we are paying. The bad: They gave the heads a 3 angle valve job, decked the heads and installed the valves. Then they did a vacuum...

Ya, I'm hoping round 2 of this goes better.

I tried to get pics, but my camera phone didn't really do very well. The pics look pretty bad. When I run my finger along the smoothed out area's things are pretty smooth with rough edges removed. First pic is a before. I didn't do anything to the intake side other than a bit of bowl work.

Yup, new gaskets and head bolts. Its too late to ask him to cc before and after. I'm picking them up this afternoon. All gasket surfaces are prepped on the motor, head gaskets laying in place, cylinders and lifters cleaned and oiled/assembly lubed. I'm ready to put the heads back on.

oops, sorry. Forced induction is all my brain processed. As far as the motors concerned on the intake side, boost is boost I would think. Only other factor is intake air temperature, correct? And, yes, some guys have turbo'd their rides. The exhaust work seems like its a lot more work than...

Holy. Your really creating work for me. ;) I'll follow your advice on the head/manifold sequence. I think I did that last time, but not as many times back and fourth as you suggest. Thanks for the tips, always appreciated.

RPCaster makes one. Do some reading. I think you are fine with 4-5lbs boost

Well, I'm going ahead with the hair cut on the heads. .020 The machine shop is doing 3 angle valve job, and installing the valves for me also. I picked up some grade 8 bolts and anti-seize for the exhaust manifolds. The factory studs seem to be more of a pain in the a$$ than anything. I...

Hows the compression in the cylinders? Spark? How about injectors? While the miss is happening, you can remove one plug wire, see if the miss gets worse, and plug the wire back in. Move to the next plug wire. Do the same thing. This should at least give you an idea which cylinder is missing.

The manifolds off your OHV will not work. I'm guessing you need manifolds off an explorer SOHC. The real issue is the electronics, I would think.

Your funny! If I can get what I have working really efficiently, I'll be happy. The 422 cam would have been nice. It doesn't really appear to have any more overlap than the 411 cam. I think with slightly increased compression, the 422 is the only way to go.

cylinders and head gasket looks fine. Not sure what to say yet. Maybe a valve just isnt seating properly. I sure hope the different head fixes the issue.

Valves are here, Just finished pulling the heads. I'm a bit concerned that I don't see anything obvious wrong with the one head. Valves appear to be closed, valves look good on it. Oh boy. I sure hope the issue isn't rings on cyl's 1 and 3 giving me the 90psi. I'll be using the warranty...

This whole motor issue could be the best thing imaginable. Hot truck, with an almost new motor. Nice! Not without its pain in getting there though.

Anyone want any? I know a guy that is going to make a run of them. I'm not a dealer, or am I making a dime off this. I'm guessing this is a one shot deal. $30.00 + Shipping. They are rumoured to help with valve train noise, and give a little less resistance to the moving rockers. I...

Here's a link with pictures of the rocker assy's http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=78573 I see we would not use full assy's, just the Rockers themselves. Now, how can the ratio change on the rocker assy unless you are able to move the rod a little bit that the rockers mount to? I'm not...

Sooooooooo, jd4242.............Do you have a head laying around? If we were to get a rocker assy, we would need someone with a head to see if they can be made to work.

I love this! Some metal work and bondo to the old mounts and you could have a perfectly clean back end. :-) I wonder..... would a newer X with the right colour tailgate bolt right on?

I ordered valves on Monday Nov 31, and hopefully the valves show up by the 10 th of November. I'll pull my motor apart over the long weekend and see what the big problem is. Then I can work on the heads. I will take pictures. Being I'm new to this, I will be very conservative. I'd be a very...

Looks good for using the current push rods I have if I shave the heads. Excellent.

Exactly. You shave some material off the bottom of the head. This makes the combustion chamber smaller, raising your compression ratio. Yes, I knew the exhaust exit ports were smaller, but as I read it didn't seem to be a huge deal. I guess I was wrong. I think I will take the time to...

So, Delta sys their oversized push rods are 50 over stock. Stock push rods are 5.475. So that means the Delta's are 5.525. Correct? That would mean with shaving .020 off the heads, the new length required would be 5.505 Geez, I feel like I'm splitting hairs.

I won't be measuring. I don't have confidence in my ability to do that. If I can get info on what I currently have, and yours will work for me, Ill defintely purchase from you.

Wish I knew what Delta shipped with their F40 kit and cam for push rod length. That would tell me for sure what I need if I shave my head. Maybe I'll try calling/emailing them.

I wonder if I could have push rods rushed in. Hmmm............. My new head just showed up. No si valves yet. Im tempted to pull the valves off the head this weekend and lightly round the casting around the valve hole. I understand in basic porting techniques this is easy to do and nets a...

I'd have done the 422 cam if I could have brought up my compression to a reasonable level. I just couldn't see how to do it without pulling the motor and dropping different pistons in. With the auto tranny and low compression, it just didn't make sense for me. I think I'll pull the heads...

The Maf is stock. The TB is stock with the half shaft mod. I did a buy from the same guys that did the group buy almost 2 years ago now. Full housings. I really need to take a picture of my X and post it. I made it up the runner about 2 inches from the bottom, then I touched up from the...

Thanks JD. Im just exploring options since I'll have both heads off again anyway. Here is what a side by side looks like on my lower intake. I've included a pic showing how the upper part doesn't really need much work. I did touch up the unside though, without blowing thru the walls and...

Really? I thought 95 and 98 had the same combustion chamber. Doh! Not much I can do about it now. Be another $500.00 to change heads.

Question guys.....Shaving heads. 2000 OHV If I shave .020 off, do I have to watch push rods? I could probably just go back to stock rods. Also, do I need to do anything to the lower intake to make sure the angles are right and the gasket seals? Any thoughts on what that would do to my...

Ah, Xeek your funny. Thanks for the reminder. I remember the pain you wen't thru well. I DO NOT want to live that. I removed a ton of material from my lower intake last night. I just need to use a solvent and a trip to the car wash. Last time I used oven cleaner, but it leached some...

No, I never did get a response. There is an email addy at Kanter.com though. I just havn't been able to email them. I can tomorrow though.

Thanks for the pics, I didn't think there was anything to take off of the top of the lower intake. Also, Im surprised that so much material was removed around the injector area. Thanks! Also, I feel better about purchasing the valves now. Looks like I'll be pulling the other head also...

Sure would like to see a picture of these: http://www.kanter.com/p30-fon.html#fo18 MD Rocker arm 1965-83 (12) $8.00ea Rocker shaft $50.00ea Rocker arm assembly (please specify with or without adjustable rockers) $115.00ea

Nope, motor never came out. I did change the cam though. That meant yanking the harmonic balancer. Im thinking of porting(port matching) the lower intake myself. I have a spare one off the truck right now, I just don't know where I can take it here in Winnipeg to have someone else do it...

OK, I just spent some time on the wikipedia link Mark provided, and Rock-Auto. Any make/year I pull up with the rock auto catalog with the 200cid L6 doesnt have rocker arms listed (Just the shaft, and end caps). Anyone know of another on-line source for searching this and hopefully see an...

Pulleys look fine. I did manage to tighten the harmonic balancer some more. I'm hoping that I just didnt get it sucked in tight enough. It was hard to tighten up properly as the motor just wants to turn over (Go figure). I held the belt, and tightened as much as possible. So, reading a...

Wow. I can't believe they stuck with that configuration. Thanks for the correction.

Thanks, I'll check that tensioner pulley.

I had to pay for the head. They are sending me a free return shipping label so they can look at for warranty. Im pretty happy with clearwaters support so far. I didn't do the whole bottom end, just the cam. When you say 2 ways, do you mean having the belt flipped upside down? I'll...