Deck height

You may want to take both heads to your head guy, along with your cc data. Have him evaluate which one is best for you to use.

He may be able to clean up the first one with milling a bit off of the head to get it flat. This will just make the chambers slightly smaller, depending on how much he needs to take off to get it "true" again. The other head may need a slight clean up, but not as much.


He also may want to look at the condition of the valve guides to see which one is best to use.


If you are thinking of using a cam above .500" lift, then let your head guy know so he can make sure that there is enough travel in the valves to accomodate this and not get into coil bind/valve bottom out. Make sure that you have some "wiggle room", ie. if you are going to run .500" lift, make sure it has a minimum of .550" or .600" travel in the valves, depending on how much lift your cam will have.

See above as to where I am at with the heads and give your opinion.

I am not going to use a cam that large.

At this point do we have enough info to say how much has to be removed from the head to get to the compression I am after?

What order am I too approach this.

My plan is

1- Have the head re-conditioned replacing any valve guides that need replacing and installing the over-sized valves.

2- porting the head to increase flow

3- shaving the appropriate amount from the head to get to a 9.1 9.5 to 1 compression ratio. Amount still un-known at this point. Dont know how to calculate that. Must be something more specific than 6 thou = 1 cc so figure 48 cc to get to 9.1 ......just off the top of my head

What would be next in other words?