Thread: 350 rebuild head advice

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Lance, before you spend money on a set of fosdick factory iron heads, please consider a 472/500 Cadillac engine and transmission swap. A bone-stock big Caddy with TH400 will love those tall gears and pull like Jack the Bear. Do some research before you pull the trigger either way. Buy the whole running car, '72-'76 for unleaded fuel, sell the glass, sheet metal and interior on craigslist to recover costs.

Alternately, pop for a set of aftermarket iron heads that will fit your budget. (Honestly, by the time you fix everything on those production heads that will need to be fixed, you will have more money in them than they will ever be worth and they're still subject to cracking). RHS (Racing Head Service), a subsidiary of CompCams, manufactured some iron heads that will do a real good job on a 350 block. I think they discontinued them in favor of producing aluminum products instead, so the last of the inventory was farmed out to different web presences such as Amazon, under the brand name of CompCams instead of RHS. Here is the last part number I know of, 12403. Valves, seals, springs, retainers, keepers are available from Competition Products, listed as a "cylinder head fulfillment" kit. Screw-in studs too.
http://www.amazon.com/Comp-Cams-1240...cylinder+heads