Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

That would make a good cutaway display item.

Should be easy to cut with most of the metal rusted away.:)

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

Yea, yea, rub it in!:D

Going to pick up another head this morning. $25 bucks can't get hurt too bad.

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

Brumfield head installed, started right up. Seems to run about the same, sounds the same to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABt...ature=youtu.be

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

Did the compression come up?

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

Probably.:D

I'll re-torque in the morning, run it again and check the compression while it's warm.

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

If this is that $25 head, you sure got lucky.:)

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

Yep, $25 bucks. He had several stock heads too. He knew it was a high compression head, I even remarked to him that a Synders 5.5 was $300. And asked if he was sure he wanted to part with it. A stock head would have been fine with me, but since he didn't care I thought it would be an interesting experiment to try it out. It certainly didn't fit down over the studs as well as the one I pulled off, and the distributor seems to set a wee bit higher making the spark-plug wires seem a tad too short. I took a peek at the honing marks in the cylinders while I had the head off, they are still there for the most part but you can tell it is wearing in. He has a Fordor for sale for $5000 too if anyone's interested. A pretty complete car that does run and drive.

Re: Pulled my spare engine apart for inspection
 

CHA-CHING!:) Maybe a little more with some run time on it?

76,75,75,75.