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Pertinent background info -
158k miles on the car, motor has never been opened up, currently all stock and on a budget. Shooting for ~300whp, i have oem HG and arp's on the way.
The question -
I called around to a lot of machine shops today, and they all want between $200 and $500 to clean it up, mill it, and install the new valve stem seals. Carquest said that if I bring them the bare head they will mill it for $40 and have it back the same day....now I'm considering doing this but I don't know how hard it will be. I have access to a big c-clamp for removing the valve springs and a shit ton of spare time (head coming off saturday, going to the machine shop on monday), but how hard are the cam oil seals to install correctly? anything else I should know about taking it apart and reassembling it myself that isn't in the TSRM?
Oh, and for a stocker torqued to 75ft/lbs, the head just needs to be milled, right?
158k miles on the car, motor has never been opened up, currently all stock and on a budget. Shooting for ~300whp, i have oem HG and arp's on the way.
The question -
I called around to a lot of machine shops today, and they all want between $200 and $500 to clean it up, mill it, and install the new valve stem seals. Carquest said that if I bring them the bare head they will mill it for $40 and have it back the same day....now I'm considering doing this but I don't know how hard it will be. I have access to a big c-clamp for removing the valve springs and a shit ton of spare time (head coming off saturday, going to the machine shop on monday), but how hard are the cam oil seals to install correctly? anything else I should know about taking it apart and reassembling it myself that isn't in the TSRM?
Oh, and for a stocker torqued to 75ft/lbs, the head just needs to be milled, right?