Breathing new life into the 318 in the Scamp!

The lettering shows a little more scuffing from the paper than I'd like, but it's superficial.

I've been beating around some ideas for the pitted exhaust valve issue. The seats look fine on the head and the intake valves look ok and the stems and guides check out, but I think I'm going to replace the valves with some stock dimension stainless ones from Enginetech.

Most of the valves offered are oversize stems for a valve job, but they offer a stainless, swirl polished set in stock or oversize dimension with some nice features. They hit 17RMS on the stems as well as hit them with .0002 chrome, have 50HRc tips and suit stock installed dimension without grinding. So I think with some lapping, this engine will do nicely with them and they will resist pitting and heat transfer much better than a stock set, cut and reset with spring shims.

The set is going to run me about $80 shipped. I could just get exh. side, but I like the idea of the materials and treatment they gave this set for both intake and exhaust and being chromed stainless, will resist wear and heat a lot better. I wouldn't hesitate doing a 3 angle on everything, but the heads themselves really don't need it or guide work, so I'm going to leave it alone and sink coins into valves.

I'll take some pics of them when they arrive. I still think I'm going to tank the heads, though. The runners have a lot of carbon in them.