276 stroker from 35 years of parts

[GB SISSON]

WELL...... It appears I got lucky. I cleaned up one of the other EABs enough to test, but found they looked about the same area inside of a test gasket and had a serious rust pit in a bad place. I then went for the pair of nice red merc EAC (I had thought they were 8CM) heads. Buffed one of em out with the cup brush. I could see from the headgasket 'template' that this one had more like a 3/16" flat inside the head gasket. Encouraging, evidence of milling, but less so. And voila! I think the pics tell the story. And now I get the added bonus of 'Mercury' logo. I found that at the crown had a measurement of .042. I only did cyls 5 and 8 again. I will clean up the other head before lunch and start a test on the valves. I am hoping for good numbers there as my cam is mild. Geekers. I think I 'done good' this morning.