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Must be talking about me. I took the heads off of the first D/Dart that I owned and didn't measure the valves. I'm pretty sure that they were 1.78's and 1.50's. The block is not chamfer for valve clearance. This is what the piston in the D/Dart engine looks like. It had 128,000 miles on the car when I got it. About 75,000 of those miles were in California with the 4.86 gears in it. The engine also has the barbell style lifters in it.

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appears it has the large bore gaskets installed or the imprint of them .