ProComp/Speedmaster aluminum heads

fishmens67 said

Looking good j par. you have been busy. Maybe fire it up this weekend ?
Been a little busy myself, after hearing YR's dilemma, I decided to clean a corner of the barn for him. lol
Pretty much got the horse sh.. cleaned up, now I'm trying to eradicate the bats and rats.
I'm sure his wife is going to drain his bank account, so I'm gonna give free room and board for 90 days. lol
Keep up the good work j par :thumbsup:

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the weather doesn't look like it's going to change till at least Tuesday next week. I have a couple more days off and I'm going to try and get the most of it I can buttoned-up. I'll probably wait till just before I start it to put water in it, if those cometic do seep water they say it should stop after a heat cycle... I'll need to do a hot check on the valve lash and I'll probably go ahead and do an oil change as well. I'm just going to start it with the old oil filter and old oil which is probably less than 500 Miles old...
That reminds me that's another thing that I did today as well was I went through the valve lash again because I had previously set them at 19 cold. That's what I used to set them for on my cast-iron heads. I talked to Ken at Oregon cam grinding last week and told him I had the aluminum heads and that it calls for a 22 hot valve lash. He said the set them at 16 and check them hot. But he also said that likely the exhaust will grow more. So I went ahead and set the exhaust at 15 and the intake at 16. We'll see how it turns out hot...