Well, hope it works out for you!!! I had a couple Dodge 318 heads end up in the trunk of a scrap car that then ended up in a tow yard, never to be seen again once.All I gotta say about all that machine work is your hard earned $$$ would be way better spent with Giles on your pump... By my count between your junk head and the crank machining you're talking about now you're at least 2/3 of the way to a superpump.
old heads have bigger valve stem diameter (8mm). newer heads have smaller 7mm valve stem size.
How much did you $$ if you don't mind me asking - ball park only?
I just had a thought, are there any gasser engines that share the same bore as our engines? and out of those, are there any that could share the crank? and piston squirters? The reason I ask is that you could deck the block to make up for the stroke, and rod length. and the other reason that I ask is that it could mean cheap, and readily available blocks for all of us with a more precisely controlled piston protrusion, meaning that everyone could run a metal H/G on a modified gasser block, or have a replacement block for cheap, with just a very little Machining modification. I am sure that someone has thought of this, but being faced with the alternative, of having to find everything all over again this just dawned on me. Maybe Mr. Kraut would know, or one of the older, more knowledgeable members would know, who knows this could even start a new business for someone on the forum here.thanks,Kevin
Feel like a dummy, I just realized that I forgot that the gears are the other direction on the gasser I/M shafts, oh well. I didn't have the diesel one as a ref. because of the thing being in my now totaled car