Who needs books? lol Engine doesn't look bad for the miles you have on it. Put it back together and run her till she blows then build you a beast.

 

Engine looks awesome for over 100k miles but I run synthetic fluids in everything. If I ever go completely forged, I will run bigger than this Novi 1000, lol.

I friend Jay just but a 2.2 Kenne Bell in his 02 Dakota 4.7L and it sounds sick.
http://s42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...0721002206.mp4

 

Same here, that's all i run.

 

I worked on the head for about an hour today. Certainly looks better!
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That looks much better

 

Have you ever thought about doing the 08+ intake manifold, Blown?

 

I've given it some thought. I just don't think the hp is worth the $. I would like to try some of the aluminum 4.6L Cobra intakes. Maybe later down the road, I need my new head gaskets to arrive first, lol.

 

Gotcha. The manifold isnt even that expensive; its the adapter for the throttle body thats the killer. Are you just doing one head gasket at a time?

 

That is the plan. Saturday Travis is comming over and we are going to start swapping out the stock valve springs to the high load beehive springs. If I do one head at a time I can keep tension on the timing chains so i don't have to remove them. I'm not trying to reset timing unless that is my only course of action.

I've got my Hylomar spray but still waiting on the gaskets from Cometic.