As Roy's "partner in crime", I can state that the car the beautiful 116 head is going into isn't as pretty as the head.

The #2 head which is all pock-marked was out of a "dead" donor engine (= unusable). It looked like the exhaust valves wouldn't have had a sealing surface.

The head #1 that was shown in the first post by Roy was the one that came out of the car. No, it was not welded. We just used a green paint stick to show where the cracks were for photographic purposes. Both # 1 and # 2 head were really bad. Junk. Both of the bad heads were very filthy and rusty too.

My clothes now also sport new black beauty marks from the oil.

The engine of the good head looked really good. We probably should have just pulled the entire engine... but you don't know what you're getting from a pic-n-pull. This time it was "golden".

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Pete Williams, President emeritus - MBCA-International Stars (Eastern Mich.) Now Wi. & Az.
1985 300D Manual 4 speed Green Hen's tooth
1979 MGB triple black Az car nice
1969 back 1/2 of MGB (Az home built trailer)
1991 Volvo 245 Wagon Nice AZ Restored Gold Brick
1983 Jeep CJ7 37,600 Miles Summer use only