well earlier in the thread ( and the reason for the valve guides) was because once i got the heads back from the machine shop for being surfaced and cleaned,I noticed one of the guides was cracked on the intake side, so back they went for a set of guides, seals, hardened seats etc between parts and labor about $450 later on a set of iron heads..... yea i know that was stupid to do, but again the goal was to get it running, now hindsight being what it is I plan on tearing the motor out of the car through the bottom rolling it in the garage, check it, and when it fails testing, i have a nice set of aluminium heads I plan on picking up from Chris2342 tomorrow evening.

Now with aluminium heads that are out of the box new, and a set of felpro 8519 pt-1's, do i need to worry about copper spraying them as well ? I figured new gaskets would be cheap insurance, rather then trying to reuse a set that are barely broke in, or could i reuse them ?

its gonna be a long night tonight.......

-Mike