keanej
New Member
Finally got around to reconditioning the spare cylinder heads I got of ebay 12 months ago !
So I spent last week cleaning up the 1st cylinder head, ground the new valves in - all fine.
Started on the 2nd head and found some alloy damage between the piston/gasket seal area and the main water channel - 2 deepish hollows - looks like an original weakness in the casting.
The engineering shop said it could be repaired easily enough, £30 for the welding and £30 for the head skim + vat.
So I didn't bother with that and bought a pair of Land Rover heads for £14.99 of ebay - they look in good condition and although I haven't cleaned them up the head surface looks good.
I am assuming it isn't sensible to mix a later Land Rover head with the SD1 head (I have already completed) as although the heads look similar they are a different casts and so some of the air flow properties may be different - therefore I need to use the two Land Rover heads ?
Just asking incase they are compatible and so saves me the time in preping a 3rd head !
John
So I spent last week cleaning up the 1st cylinder head, ground the new valves in - all fine.
Started on the 2nd head and found some alloy damage between the piston/gasket seal area and the main water channel - 2 deepish hollows - looks like an original weakness in the casting.
The engineering shop said it could be repaired easily enough, £30 for the welding and £30 for the head skim + vat.
So I didn't bother with that and bought a pair of Land Rover heads for £14.99 of ebay - they look in good condition and although I haven't cleaned them up the head surface looks good.
I am assuming it isn't sensible to mix a later Land Rover head with the SD1 head (I have already completed) as although the heads look similar they are a different casts and so some of the air flow properties may be different - therefore I need to use the two Land Rover heads ?
Just asking incase they are compatible and so saves me the time in preping a 3rd head !
John