Rocker Arm help

These heads are looking less and less a great value or even just mediocre value including snagging them during a Black Friday sale.

Buying bare castings, your choice of valves, springs, retainers, locks, seals, shims, shipping cost, paying for the valve job, and correcting the saddles adds up. A geometry correction kit if you’re going to do it up right. Then the time and travel to acquire and get everything in the hands of the actual shop you are paying, the gas etc.

Other than buying them fully assembled and just running them OOTB on a lower HP build

OR

you have the ability to do all this yourself

it adds up to a “False Economy”

Forget about the porting it takes to get the heads competitive with other offerings.
Will anyone be so bold and brave as to actually add up the money and time invested it took for them to get a set of these heads ready to bolt on?
Seems it Just ain’t worth it.
I’ll keep tabs on my total expenses on mine and post them up (probably be awhile before I get around to getting it all done). I bought bare casting, Black Friday 2020. I did buy valves and head studs from SM at the same time, but I wanted to match springs to whatever cam I run so didn’t see the point of buying a complete set then swapping springs. I’ll see about putting my rocker shafts on my heads this evening and getting pictures of how they sit in the saddles.