Heads...Buy new, go through stock ones...built ones?

[HobbyStock62]

alright, starting to get things together for my build. the heads on the truck have 270k on them...I know the owner of Headwerks pretty good, and he does amazing work. Said it would be about 1500 bucks to have my heads redone, that is if things arent trashed. so my question is what should i do? I plan on having my truck at about 650hp. have these heads gone through, or buy heads? if i should buy heads, what heads? or if i should go through these heads, what parts to get for them?

 

[Crack85]

alright, starting to get things together for my build. the heads on the truck have 270k on them...I know the owner of Headwerks pretty good, and he does amazing work. Said it would be about 1500 bucks to have my heads redone, that is if things arent trashed. so my question is what should i do? I plan on having my truck at about 650hp. have these heads gone through, or buy heads? if i should buy heads, what heads? or if i should go through these heads, what parts to get for them?

Is that 270k on stock truck? If so I'd get new heads...

 

[HobbyStock62]

i believe these heads have 270k on them at least. im not sure because i just bought the truck a year ago, and didnt have any info on that. i suppose i will have to see what they look like when they are off. but i am leaning towards new heads, just not sure.

 

[Mike's Diesel Performance]

$1500 to go through them? Holy smokes what is he doing to them?

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[Crack85]

$1500 to go through them? Holy smokes what is he doing to them?

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My guess would be, flux, deck, harden seats, valves n valves springs....

 

[HobbyStock62]

My guess would be, flux, deck, harden seats, valves n valves springs....

and them some. he is very thorough and OCD. my dad owns an auto shop and brings all his heads to headwerks, and has never had an issue with him.

 

[Mike's Diesel Performance]

Still seems high. The new heads you get wont have hardened seats and you will also need to get the new ones checked for flatness.

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[Crack85]

and them some. he is very thorough and OCD. my dad owns an auto shop and brings all his heads to headwerks, and has never had an issue with him.

Good deal, not sure what else u can do besides an angle job, replace liners n port....

 

[HobbyStock62]

yea, im no head genius, i just trust the guy and know he wont screw me haha.

 

[05sixliter]

I've got $800 in my heads. hardened seats, new valve guides, milled .004", fluxed ect.

 

[slc dzl]

http://powerstrokearmy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34632

 

[Mdub707]

$1500 seems pretty steep, even with that amount of work.

 

[5fifty]

I bought a new set of head from Clearwater Cylinder Heads and it was $1500.00.
New castings. I had one that was warped pretty bad and the other had cracks.
Couldn't afford new Ford units so I went this route.

Got 4500 miles on the towing in a 550

 

[e.nickkk]

I spent 3k on my heads oversized valves 2mm over harded seats intake and exhaust ported new valve guides so 1500 doesn't sound to bad to me

 

[HobbyStock62]

Holy heads...is that MTW stage 4 that crazy?

 

[e.nickkk]

its pretty sick when it lites off