Good deal. Yeah better to play it safe than be sorry on the side of the road later. Yeah the sparkly bits in ones sump is never good. *shakes head no* I have another fur I watch (Ampurz) that's doing the same thing with his build up too right now. Another Ford guy though haha! Have fun with it!

Everything went pretty well today. Valvesprings have plenty of clearance. Valves have almost double the recommended clearance. Popped a main bearing cap and the bearing was bran spankin new. Which is why there are shavings in the bottom of the sump. Heads are on and torqued For the final time. Next is setting the valve lash to zero and seeing how the valvetrain geometry stacks up.

After that. Put the intake on, see if that needs to be shaved. Then it's engine pulling time. I'm pretty nervous about that part.

Oh I hear you there! There are probably spiders all under that hotrod after its been parked in the yard! Stupid spides! Could be worse. Could be snakes. You don't have snakes in your car do you? *climbs up on his desk*

Yeah checking the ports for alignment is always fun. I got to do that with my headers soon. What manifold were you ganna run? I forgot already. Wolf/Mustang here you know.

I have an eddlelbrock preformer on camelback heads. I'm actually not too sure how to check the port alignment. More stuff I have to learn tonight.

This is easy like on older cars with a carb and tall intake runners. You can just look down the intake with the carb and spacer off and check them. You can use a small mirror too when doing that. But on TBI and port injected stuff that may not be possible.

You can sometimes simply use an intake gasket as a template and lay it on the head with a few bolts installed to hold it as it would be with the intake bolted down. That would tell you what the head side looks like. Then do simular with the intake and intake bolts. But you have to be careful doing this that you have the gasket sitting exactly were it would be when sandwhiched between the heads and intake. If it's off you can try to get thicker or thinner intake gaskets. If its way off you might have to mill the intake down a little.

But unless you're running a seriously HP engine, a little off is not a big deal. I used to dyno Cup cars and you'd be surprised how forgiving a 800HP engine can be sometimes. Slight port misalignment usually isn't ganna make or break you. Heck on my intake (see the engine in my scrapes) the builder says cutting off an inch at the carb base only kills 10HP.