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Old 07-28-2014, 06:02 PM
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Bad valve, need advice on 305 heads

Hi.

So I think my 305 tbi motor has burnt a valve. I did the rag test after noticing a pop to my exhaust note, and some valve train noise, and sure enough there seems to be some suction on the tail pipe. I don't have the money to outright replace the engine yet, so i was thinking about just repairing the valves. but I hate to re install the crappy LO3 swirl port heads. I was wondering if there was a cheap, better option or if i could get the heads modified to improve performance a little bit. ripping these heads off will be a pain and I was kind of looking for a silver lining.

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Re: Bad valve, need advice on 305 heads

. Headbytes guy on youtube has a good 4 parts videos on porting TBI heads...

. Competition products will sell you set of 16 new 1-piece S.S. valves for $69.95 if you need them...


http://www.competitionproducts.com/S...s/products/34/
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Re: Bad valve, need advice on 305 heads

Originally Posted by cannibaljeri
Hi.

So I think my 305 tbi motor has burnt a valve. I did the rag test after noticing a pop to my exhaust note, and some valve train noise, and sure enough there seems to be some suction on the tail pipe. I don't have the money to outright replace the engine yet, so i was thinking about just repairing the valves. but I hate to re install the crappy LO3 swirl port heads. I was wondering if there was a cheap, better option or if i could get the heads modified to improve performance a little bit. ripping these heads off will be a pain and I was kind of looking for a silver lining.

thanks!
You can port and polish the heads and get 1.94 valves for them with 1.5 exhaust valves. MW66Nova here ran this set up for some time so he would be the one to talk to about it.

Or you can get a set of "SR torquer 305" heads already built from World Products for about the same cost as the rebuild. They are basically the above but the company builds them that way.
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