I guess it depends on what all they are doing to the heads but sounds pretty high, at least for the area I live in here in Virginia.  I just paid $789.00 to have my 312 hot tanked, magnafluxed, bored .060 over with one cylinder sleeved, cam bearings and freeze plugs installed, heads milled, hardened valve seats installed and heads completely assembled.  I furnished all the parts (valves, springs, keepers, cam bearings) except the valve seats which the shop furnished.     

buddy

Contact John Mummert in S. Calif. If your Trans is a Fordomatic he will likely recommend his 265 deg. (advertised) cam. He has a 272 degree one that some use, but it's apparently a bit marginal with Fordomatic.

Paul

Thanks for the replies. Everything pretty much stated by Pete except porting will be included in this job. I now need to give him a camshaft. Any ideas? I am porting a 312 .03 over and have the crankshaft. This will be going into a 56 T-Bird with an automatic trans..

I paid $300 to have a set of posted G heads machined and I furnished the valves, springs, retainers and keepers. Then paid Ted to redo them after he discovered that they were not square end to end. That is the reason that we wound up with 13.25 comp ratio instead of the orginal planed 12.5 to 1. My opinion is you get what you pay for in most cases, but make sure that they know what you want and will stand behind their work.

Glen Henderson



Freedom is not Free

Letohatchee, AL

I paid like $850 for complete with shaved .030 and intakes areas to match so I can use any intake, so thats not very expensive if they are doing complete.

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

Sounds low to me, but it really dependes on what's being done.  I just did mine, all hardened seats, stainless valves, comp cam behive springs, new retainers, and keepers around $1300.  They were blasted, magna-flixed, lightly milled to true.  That's alot of machine shop time and a fair amount of money for parts.  If it's just a clean-up valve job then it's way too much.  MIKE

Mike, still lovin his 57 t'bird after 53 years!

With more detail others could comment relating to the actual job, but i,m sure they dont charge for work not done, i would assume that may include hard valve seat installation.

  AussieBill            YYYY    Forever Y Block     YYYY

 Down Under, Australia

It is very hard to guess what work is being done so if you want an opinion you will have to provide a little more information. Will they be removing and reinstalling the heads?

New valves/springs?

Keepers/retainers?

Hard exhaust seats?

Surfacing/porting?

Things like that. Pete

It sounds a little high, but they have a good reputation. That is a complete job.