Budget cylinder heads for a 318

RustyRatRod said

ANY new head should be gone over. Even the best of them. It's par for the course and if you don't do it, you'll regret it. AFR doesn't make Mopar heads to my knowledge. The best Mopar heads available now are the Trick Flows, but even those will need to be inspected. There's no way in the world I'd spend that kind of money and not have them checked over.

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yup. got some EQ "ready to run out of the box" heads that definitely weren't. on my wife's 360 Mag in a Durango (stock original engine as it came from the factory, with EQs to replace the factory cracked heads Only other deviation from "factory stock" was a 30-thou overbore) after running for break in in the home garage I went for maiden voyage. Within 4 freakin miles it stuck the #4 exhaust valve and kissed the piston. BRAND NEW HEADS! so I had to take them off and spend ANOTHER $200+ at the machine shop to basically have a valve job done, all of them were too tight. so my $700 heads (back in 2016, picked up right from EQ on a "will call" from their Chicago warehouse) became $900+ heads......