sratched a head's flange: how serious is it?

[Jim Green]

--- Konstantine Bogach <kbogach at home.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> When taking off a head on a junk yard I droped it on
> a block and
> scratched flange surface. I did not take the head
> from a yard because I
> am not sure about consequences and cost of
> machining. Scratch is not
> very deep and is not going all the way through  from
> inside to outside.
> Is it still worthy to take it?

Yea, you will want to have the head shaved flat
anyways, so that will take care of the scratch. ~$40

> I have never rebuilt head by myself and I wanted the
> head just to play
> with and learn its internals and how to rebuild it.
> What can I do to a
> head besides to make another rebuilt stock one?  I
> mean what kind of
> mods is worthy to do ( besides modified camshaft) ?

Port it and get rid of some of the ridges that are in
there.  You can also have 40mm intake valves from an
NG head installed.

> I would appreciate
> if someone point me to an  information source for
> additional injectors
> as well (are they installed in intake manifold?).

See what Javad (jshadzi at aol.com) did with the IM I
have on my car.  See my website below

=====
Jim Green
'89 90tq
http://www.geocities.com/jeg1976/car_home.html

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