kunta0908

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I picked up a set of used heads from a local friend and member of the boards. He came over to the garage one evening and checked out the 383 sitting on my stand and mentioned that it looked like I was gonna need a set of heads. Coincidentally, he had a set of used LE2 heads he had forgotten about that were sitting in the back of his Volkswagon. Lol. So I snatched them up and it turns out they were nasty with carbon buildup and such.

Luckily, a good friend over at Excessive Racing here in Houston told me he could rejuvenate them, and boy did he. I cant even describe the difference from when I gave them to him.

Was wondering if anybody could confirm these as original LE2's, or give some input on how effective these may be on my build by pictures alone, still waiting on flow numbers

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/t86sosujnxyjpkr/jZOQ3notN-

kunta0908

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Hmmm...

ahritchie

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I doubt anyone can tell just by looking at the porting, they are done by hand, so each one will have slight variances. He supposedly stamps "LE2" on them. Does your friend not have any receipts, email correspondence, flow sheet ect. for them? He may have just said that for a quick sale to hose you! Good luck on the flow numbers!

check this link out for what I'm talking about:

http://www.ls1lt1.com/forum/attachme...e-104_3013-jpg

kunta0908

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These were quite a few years old, I never expected receipts or flow numbers when I bought them. Plus, simply the springs and rocker studs installed on them would have cost more than what he offered them to me for.

Numbers for them will be here soon, so I guess I will see what I'm looking at then.

ahritchie

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Be very wary of unknown valve springs...no telling how many miles on them or if they were on a bracket racer car that spends all the time at the drag strip, I bought some older Combination motorsports stage 2 CNC ported heads with some comp cams triple valve springs that supposedly only had 7K on them (very little carbon buildup) they were off a bracket car though, and those springs were DONE! I'd get a spring pressure tester, or just replace them entirely if I was in your shoes. Performance springs with a big cam don't last nearly as long as stock ones (maybe 20K if that). You've been warned!

kunta0908

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I was told that while dissassembled, the springs were tested and were well within standards. Understood though, I will certainly double check before final install. I'm just trying to anticipate a cam for my setup now pending numbers.

KyleW707

I have le2's that were done before he started stamping them, and they have ferrea valves, which he doesn't use anymore. I took mine to him to have them verified, but you could possibly email him and ask for specs and then measure the porting yourself, or ask if there are any small specific things he does to them so you'll be able to tell

kunta0908

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I'll ask my friend who cleaned them up about the valves. Measuring won't do any good anymore, as you can see from the pics, they have been scribed and worked on even more. Anyway to verify ferrea's visually?

96z28_lt1

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I know my le2 heads were stamped at the end with my last name and le2 on them

za355tx

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Send up close pics to Lloyd and he should be able to verify if its his work or not.

96capricemgr

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Well within what spec?

ditchdrift

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exactly, within what spec for what cam? lol a good set of springs is sub 150 bucks. well worth the money.

96capricemgr

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Within spec for the cam wouldn't matter much if the springs had started at a higher pressure and a worn out anyway.

kunta0908

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Poor choice of word. After testing them, as was recommended in the first reply, they were found to be within his acceptable standards deviated from the brand new spring's specs.

Moot point really. New springs have already been purchased.