ScreaminRedZ

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Anyone know anything about these?

thanks

Beast96Z

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Find something else to look at. ARE does not have a good reputation around here.

ScreaminRedZ

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Already have them. I picked them up at a price that I couldn't turn down. I plan on having them looked at at a local machine shop. I want them checked out and measured for combustion chamber size, intake runner, and exhaust runner sizes and flowed.

Anything in particular I should have them look for?

Thanks

technical

I don't think the issues mentioned above were quality related. If you already have the heads it's probably no big deal.

strokedls1

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I have a set 5.3L heads from them. They flow well, but were milled almost .040.

mike c.

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ARE's problem was not quality,it was wade who has been gone from there for over a year. my motor in my car was done by ARE and it has been nothing but great.

MagikMan

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buy cartek

Phate

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Wade was just one of the many problems at ARE...there are plenty of threads that can be found discussing Wade, Nick, and the rest of the gang at ARE/Autoworxs and how they screw people over.

Whenever you see something for sale in the FS section here you can pretty much knock off an extra 50% if it was ever touched by ARE/Autoworxs...hard to give that stuff away.

In reference to the heads, ARE was notoriously bad at valve jobs so have your place look there.

ScreaminRedZ

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Cool. I'll have everything gone over very well. Like I said before, I already have the heads, so I'll be using them, but I won't put them on without flow numbers and everything else.

White_Hawk

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If they were the really early ones, they sucked bad. I had some of the later ones about a year before they shut down. I made 385/385 with them and mild cam (207/220 .571/.578 118.5). They had some really good knife-edging on the intake port split and a stock chamber. I think the old ones were just hogged out.

-Geoff

LASTLS1

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I bought a set on here from Minty. They were a real pile of ****, I don't know if they came from ARE like that or another machine shop screwed them up. I would check spring pockets, valve guides and valve job. I paid Minty good money, then threw another $600 at them. They were still a pile when I was finished. Good luck!