Sorry, no more Bowtie heads, had 3 sets. Sold two pair and swapped other set for some other goodies.
I guess it is all about "who" you know. Machine shops that you scratch their back and they do likewise.
Normally boring to most guys is $120 per hole, me $50 a hole. Head Shaving? $20 bucks. Surface grind to clean up? sometimes free. Tanks soaks are about $25 dollars depending on whether he is busy or not.
But then most people on here don't go to Auto Swap meets, or weld or do much of their own mechanical work. Most don't work at the local race track. And most probably don't work on race cars. So they don't know what is a Rip-Off and what is a good deal! Most probably don't plasti-gauge their own engines.
And more than likely don't have your Mercedes Ported and Polished or line-bored!
I don't suppose while you had that head off that you ported and polished the intake and exhaust ports, did you? Both on the intake ports of the intake manifold and the head. And then polised both mating surfaces.
Did you at least replace the Valve springs? That would have been more important than replacing all 10 valves!
You could have done that yourself.