Continuation 2/24/08 ...
I drove to Louisville, Ky Friday with my 781 heads from the 454 I'm building for the '87 lowrider.
Here's what they looked like when I removed them from the block last week.
My wife and I dropped them off at my brothers shop so he could get them in the washer, cleaned up and ready to start the machine work on Saturday morning. We left his shop 30 minutes later heading down I65 to his house and I lost power in my '86 Jimmy. Had to tow it back to his shop. Saturday morning, I started working on it while he started working on the heads. The problem was in the pickup stator in the distributor. So, I rebuilt the distributor and fired it up.
Later in the day, he got the heads finished. Here are the old valves and new ones:
He opened up those stock heads with 2.190/1.880 valves
Here's the finished product, ready for paint and installation:
Got them back home last night. Started prepping the lower end tonight. Hope to have it running in a few weeks.
Kenny