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Thanks again everyone for your info... I spoke with the engine builder again yesterday.. Straight up told him I wanted to break the bank and get the titanium valves...

He flat out rejected that idea and used that polite "In all due respect" phrase... which basically means he refuses to spend the extra money and once again said I should save the money or upgrade to better heads and then get the exotic valves..

I guess that means he doesnt like B1 Original heads... but then he's a high horsepower, heads up racer...

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In light of that I would find a different builder It is not like you are asking him to put in plastic valves or something, he should do it the way you ask him too unless it was destructive or dis-honest and that request is neither I run into that kind of stuff at machine shops pretty often "you can't mill .030 off the deck of a 5.9 magnum block" was the last one I had to deal with, I found a shop to do it (he said the same thing but he eventually did it) and the truck is still running great a couple years later.