Okay, heres the deal. I'm still deciding on how I want to do this.
I recently tore down the motor of my 89 LX to get to the headgaskets (which i thought were blown, turns out the previous owner decided to put the motor back together without the dowel pins, and the head gaskets didnt set right and were leaking combustion gasses into the cooling system.) And I have been calling machine shops around here, the most noteworthy one being Clearwater Cylinder heads.
Most shops want $200-250 to clean the E7s, check for cracks and rebuild them. They all have told me that because these heads are iron, they need to fully disassemble and rebuild them to check and clean them properly.
Should I throw down the money on these heads, or should I go to ebay and spend the extra money on the GT40 heads? its $600 for a set of GT40s, and they are already cleaned and checked and ready to bolt on.
Do you guys think the GT40's are worth it? How much power could i gain?
Do they require any kind of special modification to bolt up to my motor?
I recently tore down the motor of my 89 LX to get to the headgaskets (which i thought were blown, turns out the previous owner decided to put the motor back together without the dowel pins, and the head gaskets didnt set right and were leaking combustion gasses into the cooling system.) And I have been calling machine shops around here, the most noteworthy one being Clearwater Cylinder heads.
Most shops want $200-250 to clean the E7s, check for cracks and rebuild them. They all have told me that because these heads are iron, they need to fully disassemble and rebuild them to check and clean them properly.
Should I throw down the money on these heads, or should I go to ebay and spend the extra money on the GT40 heads? its $600 for a set of GT40s, and they are already cleaned and checked and ready to bolt on.
Do you guys think the GT40's are worth it? How much power could i gain?
Do they require any kind of special modification to bolt up to my motor?