W7 INFO
Whose rockers are those. They look pretty dang nice. What happened to your heads??
the rockers were Erson.... Steve Tanzi found a couple sets as the ship was sinking in Carson City. $700
Back in the stone template era at Moparts, Ryan (SDSS) had a group buy in for W5 cnc porting... I acquired this set from an ARCA racer in MI for cheap and sent em to PA. Within 50 passes there was water getting in cyl 3. #3 port was leaking... talked to Ryan J, sent the head back, and it was returned epoxied (type unknown). Engine was reassembled, with new lifters and pushrods (six cracked lifters...suspected harmonics) and ran another 150 passes before my dad called and said the car died on the return road and wouldn't crank. A few days later he called with news of #3 full of water. Engine pulled, tore down and I started making some phone calls (Ryan put me on “no contact” at this point). I spoke with Larry Demers in Iowa and he had a guy that had brought Brodix sprint car heads back from the dead (big logistics pita... dad in SoDak, me in AZ). Sent the head to Iowa.... after a month the guy gave up. Basically the more he welded, the more it crumbled. So I got a new W5 pen holder at work.
Now if this wasn’t bad enough, I sold the remaining head to a racer in WA for a spare. My dad boxed it up, and shipped it.... and then I got “the call”...... yes, 1 PO’ed/worried buyer. Head had cracks around 5 of the guides (yeah Ryan put guides in them). So as I was discussing this, I drug the other head of the bench and sure enough.... more cracks. Now mind you many were quick to point at Ryan, but to be honest, putting guides in these heads was probably like pressing guides into a fortune cookie.... expensive ordeal.
the heads in the picture above were set #2.... I was going to do a build with them, but in conversation with my current builder he basically told me straight up....”didn’t you learn anything the first time??” . So much love for the W5.
