Cast vs. Aluminum heads and bang for buck..

j par said
I don't know what it is about you but you like say stuff to purposely make me hit the disagree button? If not one person's mind will get changed about this then you can go ahead and answer the personal messages I've been getting as to where they can get their set of aluminum heads for $820 sent to their door?...
I'm happy for you and all the people that are benefiting from those old hot rod pointers and I'm not trying to take away from that. I had one of those old hot rod pointers Point me into putting way too much money into a set of cast iron heads. (again as mentioned I couldn't get $400 for in perfect order with badass Springs and the whole nine yards. Harden seats brand new valves everything) Now I'm trying to get with the times now that aluminum heads have been put in the same price category.
Here's where I give you credit. You were talking to that guy about putting more money into a set of Magnum heads that he was going to already pay $400 for. As a possible upgrade in performance... for me personally I sincerely wish at any point I was at that stage and looking for more and there was an option to spend just a tad more and get so much more with less work...
nobody's gotten nasty and called anybody any names or anything like that for a monitor to clean up that I've seen? Would you like this conversation to cease to exist?...

Sure, many will be interested in loaded aluminum heads for 820. But this thread isn't about where to buy, there was a thread on that last year, their big sale. This thread is about, "putting equal or more into iron heads vs aluminum".
Lets visit REALVILLE.

My 318 heads in my '74 Duster. New valve springs for 50 bucks, and new exhaust valves for 48 bucks, and 10 bucks for new umbrella seals, 20 bucks in stones to port. For my engine, for my build, 128 dollars and some winter time porting, I got what I wanted. Didn't want 800+ dollar heads!
I also bought remanufactured, fully loaded mag heads for 300 bucks (pair). They were meant for my 5.2 mag. I changed my mind, added 230 bucks for Hughes spring kit, and 60 bucks to have Odessa's fix checked out, and 10 dollars in stones. That's 600 dollars all set for up to .550 lift. You will be over 900 dollars in your aluminum heads with springs. That's still 300 bucks cheaper than your heads with new spring, and even more if you take yours to a machine shop to be checked out, and I'm not sure you'll flow hardly any better, IF better.
So tell my why I'm stupid in these two builds??? This is why the decision will be made case by case scenario.