Ok so a small progress update today.
I dropped the heads off yesterday 2pm and got to talking to the two dudes, it's father n son deal out of their house. Been building motors along time. We chatted for a bit and I got schooled on some more engine goodness.. after about a minute of looking at the heads, Sr tells me I'm loosing about 20 hp from shitty installed intake gaskets there not aligned right. Also advised that I'm using high octane for the flat top pistons since there was a bunch of carbon build up on em (showed them pics of everything), said it was a higher compression engine. Said I could go to a single plane intake for some lower end grunt and eventually swap to a holly hp carb as their favorite likings.
So cool deal, got a call at 10 am today saying they were done. Woo hoo, I was figuring a week or so. 160 bucks n I'm set to install this weekend.
My ish from summit should be here tomorrow so I am pretty stoked to hopefully be putting it back together this weekend.
While I'm down, I got my valve covers pretty clean and also cleaned n painted my brackets :
Oh...and here's a funny thing.....my rear end..it's a 7.5 with 3:45 gears
wtf?
I have no clue where I got in my head it was an 8.8 with 3:08s......so..looking like a got a stang rear end to sell n put towards my explorer rear coming faster than thought. Haha. Live n learn.
Good thing is...I'll be able to mess with the gearing alil bit now. 3.55s?
Ono