Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
well the valvesprings being on different sides doesnt matter iirc. That wouldnt cause any damage. The valves being mismatched , as long as INTAKE valves are intake and EXHAUST valves are exhaust, then it doesnt matter either. Its not CORRECT but it wouldnt cause a head to "blow up"

OBVIOUSLY that head has been taken apart before. I mean its fucking painted lol. Its perfectly possible the Shadow guy bought it from someone else who took everything apart and halfassed it together. It could have run perfectly fine on his car and thats why he sold it to you.

Just playing devils advocate.

IMO if you bought a head in that condition in the first place you should expect to put money in it like Guides, Seats, etc. You should have not bought it, or had a machine shop check it out first if you were really worried.

As far as having SLIGHTLY bent valves, a head can run on slightly bent valves.

Its a used part and you get what you pay for. Unless you can prove the head ACTUALLY had issues and he lied about it, i dont think he did anything wrong.

His word vs yours.

good luck.
Mike, I know valve springs are interchangable (gsr intake valve springs are type r exhaust valve springs), but you wouldn't want to run a head that has the inner valve springs only on the exhaust. Could it run without problems? Possibly but that's beyond the point. If inner valve springs are supposed to be on the intake side, then they should be on the intake side. By see that the head was put together wrong, it made me question the head.


As for that "condition", it's just paint. Paint does not mean crack head or bent valves. It means that person was horrible at painting. It's no different than buying a primer car. Because the car is primed, it doesn't mean I should have to replace the engine or the transmission is bad, right? So when he states the head is fine, then the head should be find. Would the situation be better if the head was super clean and had bent valves? Can a motor "run' with bent valves? Yes. Will a compression test be consistant? NO! I don't see how it's his word against mines, when I took it to a machine shop and they are the ones that told me that head had bent valves. It's seems like his word again the machine shop. I think my receipt will PROVE my point.

Last, it's very unreasonable to have a machine shop to check out the head 1st. I highly doubt every time you go to buy a used motor part, you got "Dude, meet at *&*%$ machine shop so I can get your part checked out" No, you do a "visual check" to find "visual flaws" then you go about your business, which I did. If the valves appeared to seat correctly, there's no way I could possible know it had 4 bent valves.

I shake my head at some you guys rational