My home inspection of Speedmaster heads

pittsburghracer said

As far as valve jobs some of you guys are spoiled. I got away from stones years ago and moved to Neway valve seat cutters but I’m limited to your basic 60-45-30-15-10 valve angles instead of you custom angles. I almost had that ability 6 years ago when a friend closing his speed shop offered me his mill and all attachments for 1200.00. If my son had any interest in doing heads I would have bought it but he doesn’t so I didn’t. I think my heads do ok with old school technology so I’m stuck there. For guys that have never seen Neway cutters here’s a link. I bought mine in bits and pieces on eBay over the years

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I'm still a stone'r (not chemically) for the most part.. Some ports/chambers just need a custom angle/s. I thought about going the Neway route.. it's fast! especially on those enormously hard seats out there.
I also have some serdi stuff. It's nice to be able to lay a beautiful radii above the top angle. killin' 2 burdens with 1 cutter this way.. unshroud and get all them little sharpies in one cut.
Still limited though.. I retrofitted my mill to use it and can't get everything in place to use it. like the 6cyl diesel puller heads I've been doing. back to the stones.
A friend of mine does a lot of the nhra Stk/SS cyl heads who is making his way towards retirement.. I've taken some of his overload over the years, and he has offered deals for the equipment but I've got no place to put it! wish I could, my shop is so small, if I don't keep it clean I can't find a place to put down a bucket ! LOL