Another first with Speedmaster heads. This one had me scratching my head

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And double checking myself. I boxed theses heads and intake up so I could get a shipping quote as the customer is sending me a check. So I unpacked everything to give them a valve job and flow testing. Well I set up the new 4 angle seat cutter I bought. Then I mounted the head on my seat machine and when I dry ran everything before cutting the seat the cutter was hitting the deck of the head. Now all I do to these Speedmaster heads is radius the edge left from the cutter they use on the intake valve and blend it in. I don’t even blue these heads anymore because the speedmaster heads give me better low lift numbers out of the box than the Edelbrock heads do easily hitting my [email protected]. Well someone dropped the ball on this set. I dug out a stock set of mine and measured the divider between the two intake valves and it measured.430. My heads were dated 2023-03-02-0088.

His both measured .513-.515 but remember I blended this some. His were dated 2022-09-17-0101.

Here’s a few pictures. With my old Neway cutters it wouldn’t have been caught or possibly mattered but with a 4 angle cutter on a seat machine it’s not possible.

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This will get me where I have to be. One head done on to the second one and hopefully valve job tomorrow.

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Well while I was working on getting the needed chamber clearance I came up with another simple project idea. My valve cutting tooling that holds the seat cutter cost Hundreds of dollars plus the almost 70.00 cutter. Not something I want to drag over to my dirty azz porting bench so I’m going to take one of my extra 11/32 pilots and machine a split ring collar to fit my pilot. Then I can weld something up as a go, no go gauge so I can quickly see if and when these chambers need some added clearance. Sure beats mounting and leveling it on my seat machine after you cleaned it up for its valve job. Another total loss of a day that I earned nothing so I might as well learn something. Lol
 
Even after removing all that metal yesterday it still touched the wall as it tapered in. A slight blend when I blend in the valve job will easily take care of that. A 2.08 valve would have required even more work but the payoff is well worth it.

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Learning something is earning something. Thanks for showing this. Do you attribute this to core shift or bad machine work or bad qc?
 
Are the guides spaced the same from your heads to those? It makes you wonder "what else" is inconsistent.
 
Are the guides spaced the same from your heads to those? It makes you wonder "what else" is inconsistent.

It’s the chambers. They are as cast. You see it all the time.

Unless it’s really bad I just let the top cut of the seat cutter take it out.

If they are too bad then I use a cutter like PRH posted above.
 
I’ll see if I have a better head in my stock later to show the cut that is usually on these heads.
 
It’s the chambers. They are as cast. You see it all the time.

Unless it’s really bad I just let the top cut of the seat cutter take it out.

If they are too bad then I use a cutter like PRH posted above.

That’s the first one I’ve ran into that my cutter set up for a 2.055 valve wouldn’t make it past the head deck surface.
 
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