I know where you're coming from moper. When I went to Summit to order my Crane Golds for some reason that I can't explain the 1.6 ratio Cranes were 80 bucks or so cheaper than the 1.5's. They just must of had an overstock that particular week and were trying to move them off the shelf.
I figured what the hell, a little extra lift won't hurt anything since I'm running 2.02 intakes and some home porting. As a bonus I noticed that the pushods appeared to be a bit more in line with the lifters. I actually enjoy setting up valvetrains so the extra work didn't bother me either. I'm hoping that the 1.6's will give me a bit more midrange and top end without degrading the idle or reducing gas mileage. We'll see shortly.
Luckily, the shop that did my heads did a good job and replaced all of exhaust seats as I requested and no, it was not cheap. There were some things that they did that I did not like. For example, when I broke down the heads to double check installed height I found lap compound on the backside of three or four valves, aaaarrrggghhh! Doesn't anyone use prussian blue anymore? Anyway, that's a story for another post. It's tough not working in a shop anymore and having to farm out work I could do it myself if I had the equipment.