Ya gotta wonder, why didn't the engine builder check for water in the engine? We checked for fuel and oil, but not the water. We had the last clear chance to prevent this from happening.

Comp Cams was really nice about trying to get our engine back together. They had two machine shops standing by in Memphis to do anything we needed and they would pay the bill. They were going to give us whatever parts we would need from their warehouse or have it shipped in overnight.

It kinda came down to how many people did we want seeing what the ports looked like, in a set of 906 heads, that flowed 340 cfm with no welding or epoxy.

As the valves had seized in the quides and pulled them out of the heads, we borrowed a lathe and a machinist at Comp to rebuild the guides. Tom and Brenda Foley re-installed the quides and sized them as our crew polished the brass from the valve stems. Comp didn't have any valve grinding equipment so we assembled the heads without any valve seat grinding and had them ready to go back on while the 500ci "air cooled" short block was still warm from the dyno.

The head gaskets got there at 8:00AM the next morning and while Darren was running on the dyno, we assembled our engine and made our pulls right after him.

It actually turned out to be a lot of fun.