ALPHA Q

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They are from my old set up (Cammed LQ9 with 243s) I bent 2 valves and cracked its 2 guides. I was thinking about getting some used valves, new bronze guides, doing a valve job and smoothing the damage and using them in another LQ9 set up. What do you guys think? Is it worth it?

ALPHA Q

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anyone?

dr_whigham

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I'd personally send them to AI, Livernois or the like and see what the EXPERTS say. They're pretty fubar'd. They know their porting capability and I f it comes out, it comes out.

There's no "smoothing it out" and running it. You're looking at fully porting the heads at a minimum, if not welding.

KCS

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I have a set just like that that I had fixed. I think it was like $50 for three new guides to be replaced. You'll need a valvejob too whenever the guides are replaced, so that's another $200 or so, but it looks like you've already got that planned out.

I'd say go for it.

HISS

iTrader: (52)

My opinion....they'd make a cool piece of car art.

squalor

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ALPHA Q, how much milling do you think it would take to remove most of the gouges ?

LivernoisMotorsports

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Like the others mentioned you will have a couple hundred bucks in repairing those back to a point to start the rest of the work.

For an example
a set of stage 3 243's are starting at $1899.99
If you send us a good set(not in need of repair)to start with they run starting at $1699.99

vettenuts

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I think before I spent any money on those I would shop around for another set to see what you can find. It may be you can find a better starting point for no too much more than being estimated for repair of those. I would wonder if there is anything you can't see with a visual inspection.