200 Head

[Anonymous]

Hi, I bought a 1977 200 ci head to put on my '67 Ford six and planned to modify the head as recommended in the Clifford performance handbook (3-angle valve job, porting, etc.). Turns out the head shop wants $1275 for this! There must be a cheaper way to get more power from my six cylinder. I have a Weber DGEV and headers already, just need a good head to go with them. Any recommendations?

Thanks for any suggestions,
Jim

 

[Anonymous]

find a new shop

 

[Anlushac11]

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Only one

Take that $1275 and put it down on one of AzCoupe's FSPP aluminum I6 heads comeing soon.

Will likely make more power than that ported iron head anyways.

And good chance the header will still work. Will need to fab a tripower intake for DGEV's probably. Might be able to find a Oz intake for that setup but they will probably be for sidedrafts.


Lacking that, read up, shop Ebay, and port your own heads and have a local small shop rebuild the head.

 

[mustang6]

$1275 is about 4x more than it should cost to do that. Obviously they don't want to do it. Call around.

 

[powerband]

""Giddyup
...as recommended in the Clifford performance handbook (3-angle valve job, porting, etc.). ...""

The figure of $1275 for a complete Performance build is not too far out of whack for modern times.

If you are asking for a complete buildup up - including parts - and machinists time you pay for expertise as well. Many shops are not willing to even consider the "outside of the box" work the Schjeldahl brother's outline. If you can find a machinist and shop willing to understand your buildup goal it may well be worth the effort ($$$).

The last buildup used a D7 250 head and the machinist analyzed the head, read my "post-it" and highlighted sections in the Falcon Six handbook. He then consulted with me and organized parts sources for the somewhat obscure demands. Once work started there was repeated CC'ing of the head for CR goal milling, cut and measured each valve spring seat for veeate valve springs with hardened receivers and cut the head for the special seals. Typical head reconditioning would entail none of this labor and expertise .

PS = I presumed you were referring to the Ford Falcon Six Cylinder Performance Handbook by the Schjeldahl brothers which is sold by Clifford Performance.

http://fordsix.com/shop.php


As the Tach spins towards 5K RPM the extra cost of confidence is not as painful as oiling the road.

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Powerband

 

[JackFish]

The shop I used charges $75/hr and typically the figure is 1hr per cylinder for a port 'n' polish. That's $450 labour right there. I reminded them there was nothing to do on the intake side (log head :idea: )and asked them to spend 1/2hr. That cuts the labour cost in half.
That does not include stuff like milling, backcutting intake valves, cleaning, parts... it's probably an 8hr job.