1964 Valiant "Get Runnin & Drivin"
Well.......A little back story on this cylinder head. I took it to a machine shop in Macon. Guy is a friend of mine. always been a real straight shooter. I wanted it milled the obligatory .100" to raise compression. He has an OLD Van Norman rotary broach. Yeah, it's not "the best" but it's nice and in really good condition. So......couple weeks later he calls me up. He's tryin to tell me somethin and finally I said "Just say it, dude". Seems one end of the head slipped out of the jaws on the broach when it was cutting. He stopped it and set it all back up but it ended up milling it crooked. He didn't try to sugar coat it. He didn't lie about. I respect that. He didn't charge me, either. So......here I was with a head that had a very noticeable difference to the nekkid eye to the chambers on either end of the head. Fast forward to now, when I need the head to raise compression on this 225 I'm fixin to put in Vixen. SO........I contact another friend who I know works in Macon at a smaller shop. Seems now he's working on the side after he gets off there in a race shop in Gordon.....like 6 miles down the road from the house.....and has one of the latest Rotler milling machines. Says if the valve cover rail is a machined surface......and it is, he can fix this head. Now, keep in mind, this head has already been milled at least .100" and probably more trying to get it back right. So he sets it up off the valve cover rail and takes some cuts. This is the result. Look how even those chambers are. ...and how small. LOL
Well.......A little back story on this cylinder head. I took it to a machine shop in Macon. Guy is a friend of mine. always been a real straight shooter. I wanted it milled the obligatory .100" to raise compression. He has an OLD Van Norman rotary broach. Yeah, it's not "the best" but it's nice and in really good condition. So......couple weeks later he calls me up. He's tryin to tell me somethin and finally I said "Just say it, dude". Seems one end of the head slipped out of the jaws on the broach when it was cutting. He stopped it and set it all back up but it ended up milling it crooked. He didn't try to sugar coat it. He didn't lie about. I respect that. He didn't charge me, either. So......here I was with a head that had a very noticeable difference to the nekkid eye to the chambers on either end of the head. Fast forward to now, when I need the head to raise compression on this 225 I'm fixin to put in Vixen. SO........I contact another friend who I know works in Macon at a smaller shop. Seems now he's working on the side after he gets off there in a race shop in Gordon.....like 6 miles down the road from the house.....and has one of the latest Rotler milling machines. Says if the valve cover rail is a machined surface......and it is, he can fix this head. Now, keep in mind, this head has already been milled at least .100" and probably more trying to get it back right. So he sets it up off the valve cover rail and takes some cuts. This is the result. Look how even those chambers are. ...and how small. LOL
