[DeTomaso] 4V cc iron heads

[Will Kooiman]

There's nothing wrong with 4V heads, but if it fits your budget, you should
consider the CHI 3V heads.

If you don't, you will always be questioning what would have been, and once
you sink money into the iron heads, you surely won't replace them with
aluminum.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 1:14 PM
To: coreyjprice at gmail.com; spkorb at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] 4V cc iron heads


In a message dated 12/17/11 7 24 45, coreyjprice at gmail.com writes:


> I think the issue here is the money to fix what I have.  $$$ for seats, 
> then resurface, and clean up the spring seat area, plus install port 
> stuffers and pin them, etc.  Does it make sense to spend $500 cleaning the
iron 
> heads up or getting some nice alloy heads for a little more?
> 

It's not a little more--it's a LOT more.   But I doubt you can do what you 
want to do to your iron heads for only $500.   I suspect it would be much 
more than that--assuming your machining them for roller rockers, etc.

You're looking at $2000 for a complete set of Edelbrock aluminum heads.   
$1400 bare.   Those are good street heads, but if you are building a
stroker, 
they would need some expensive work.   Better to step up to CHI heads, 
which are $1895 bare, or $2500 (ish) complete.

Have you actually done the math to determine what you would have invested 
in your iron heads by the time they were ready to bolt onto the motor?

Mike
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