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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 09:26 PM
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a good price for used vortec's

gimme your opinion, i have found a pair of junkyard vortec 5.7 heads from a 99 van that chucked a rod through the pan, is 200$ a good deal on the heads i gotta get em tommorow cause all the local dirt track guys swipe these asap i dunno. are they the same as 8062 l31's from a truck or different
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 09:59 PM
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According to www.mortec.com/castnum.htm

12558062...98......350..........L31 Vortec, truck, 64cc chambers, 1.94/1.5, 170cc intake port
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by vinceanity92
gimme your opinion, i have found a pair of junkyard vortec 5.7 heads from a 99 van that chucked a rod through the pan, is 200$ a good deal on the heads i gotta get em tommorow cause all the local dirt track guys swipe these asap i dunno. are they the same as 8062 l31's from a truck or different
Probably 906s.
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Old Jan 19, 2007 | 09:18 AM
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so should i get em or not?
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Old Jan 19, 2007 | 01:50 PM
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If they're 906's or 062's, then yes, get 'em, they're vortecs....
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If you think $200 is a fair price for those. That's a pretty good ballpark price, so i'd probably do it.
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