[Verdoro 68]

Pulled the heads tonight. I know octane booster turned your plugs orange, but I didn't expect this much orange!




A little more carbon on the pistons than I was expecting, makes me wonder if my valve stem seals weren't doing their job as well as they could be. Pistons cleaned up pretty easy with some brake cleaner. Cross hatching in the cylinders looks good. Lifters and cam look good.

The head bolts were surprisingly easy to break free. I noticed some oil seepage from a couple bolts on the exterior so I might have stopped a ticking time bomb by pulling this apart now.

I also found a superficial crack on the back of the driver's side head around the valve cover sealing surface that was JB Welded at some point. Not sure how I missed that in the last rebuild. I suspect it was the source of one of my leaks.





The valley pan from BOP engineering is a nice piece. Just like the factory one without the raised edge portion on the front passenger side so roller lifters will clear. Also heard from Jeff Kauffmann today that the cam is only a couple days out so a load of parts will be here soon!