I don't see where I said anything about spending $1000..... "On the heads".

In the pics, they appear to be brand new ported heads.

Even if he had to buy the w2 stands and shafts to make them work, that's $450 to be able to use the brand new heads he already owns.

You have to buy rockers to run any head, so the only added expense these heads would incur is for whatever parts are required to be able to put the rockers on.

I don't see how these heads could be duplicated(recon castings, valve job, porting, milling, assy) by using some other castings thàt still have the OE pedestals for what a set of stands and shafts cost........ But what do I know.

I just wish that people commenting on a post please read the original post and any additions to that post. So, for the record, factory bowl port on the intake and full port on the exhaust side, 3 angle valve job(competition quality) all for the price of $275.00 delivered.All this commentary about how much it is going to cost and not a good deal....tell me where can you get a deal like this? For all those that had questions to be answered or great answers given, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Ok, I will lighten up, didn't see they were bowl ported, just the exhaust. It is nice that they are new/unused. But, I figured full intake port work and whatever it took modification wise to get the current pedestals in shape to be used. I figured around 800 to 1200. But if it will take substantially less then that??? then ok.

At a possible 240 CFM as Dwayne suggests is possible, that's around 500 HP on a decent setup. Even more with a Really hot/high comp setup. Don't know what your intended application is yet, or did I miss that too.

I was just commenting on the priced of shafts, rockers, blocks and machining if needed. Did not mean to cause a big stir. I have a set of the mopar "ported" assemblies they used to sell. These were the ones supposedly ported to .650 lift, mine had the cast in pedistal but your heads reminded me of them. Black paint and all. They were 2.02 and lightly smoothed over in the bowl. They replaced a set of untouched original x heads which had a .557 purple shaft and for the price I spent on the heads(1800 in the early 90's) went absolutely no faster...I even changed to a .600 lift roller eventually and went maybe .005-.010 quicker. I was just trying to provide my opinion on messing around and spending money on all that special rocker gear and you basically end up with a stock head.

You need to keep in mind that many here (not me, I will) will not even run an iron head, and some here (not me again) have pretty deep pockets and would not take the time to mess with iron heads and some just dont have the time.

For your entry price of $275 as you state, is it worth it to proceed?

I would think it depends on your needs, at the end of the day your gonna have a killer set of heads with rocker geometry thats very correct.

If your happy with the power level they will provide, then your in high cotton.

The positive is you have brand new castings, unlike these listed on ebay, used but with the stands cut, chambers work and no pics of the intake ports, used for $500.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272538720727?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT


Although I might offer the guy a bit less.

With ebay guys wanting $1500 for rebuilt J heads is crazy but some do sell.

Many here seem to strive for that 10 second street car and they are fun but alot of work and money and unless you want to claim caveman status not practical to drive every day.

Ive noticed fabo seems to embrace alot of builds of many types and many understand a good running street car can be a 12-13 second ride.

But this is a race section, and most the time only class racers or budget minded folks will run iron heads.

After over 20 years of race blocks and al heads im going backwards to oem parts that run good.

So dont feel your going backwards or on the wrong path.