may have my vortec heads.. need help

[ZooMad75]

I'd have to look for it, but I belive you can get a tool from one of the cam companies that you can use to machine the guide and spring pocket (to standard sbc size). It uses a drill (you supply) and it indexes off of the valve guide. I think jegs or summit have it and it was like 50-60 bucks.

So you save the money on the machinework, buy set of springs and call it done.

Only weak link would be the pressed in studs then.

Are vortecs a good head over stock 70's and 80's castings? Hell yeah. If you can get them cheap enough even with the cost of the intake and addressing the spring issue, they still can run less than Dart's s/r torquer or other base model aftermarket heads. Buying everything new the cost savings vaporizes to a good set of aftermarket heads. But for the guys on a budget if you plan it right and shop wisely you can make power on the cheap... There were hundreds of thousands of trucks/vans/suv's built with the vortec 350 from 96 to up to 2001 (vans). While most of them are not in the boneyard (chevy trucks last a while dont they?) there still are many that show up weekly. Many of which are not excessive on mileage and might not require much to clean up if at all. Those are the heads to go after, not the new ones...

 

[blazin_blazer]

exactly!!

i have always been a sbc scavenger any and everthing, alternator bracket p/s brackets...i have a pile of both and of different style, i have 11 complete sbc's from 327 to 400...many of them complete from intake to oilpan and water pump to distributor, and about 5 shortblocks..... altho i bought my first set of vortecs from gmpp, i have started trying to find '96 and newer motors to add to my collection, i have 2 of them so far, but thought it would be a good idea to start saving everything i can get my hands on that is sbc, many of my motors are still in trucks that were driven up to where they sit now, to be used as parts trucks as i need something,.. i have a total of 23 trucks in various states of condition, a couple i could put a battery on and fuel in the tank and tag them if it was a nessary thing to do,.. 2 with the v8's and about 3 with the i-6 in them. i own 12 wooded acres so i can put them out of site so i don't here it from my wife, but every year i claim single and zero thru out the year on my pay check, then when i file i get married and 3 and i do this for the sole purpose of using my return to buy a truck or two to put with my others, one day people will start showing up wanting parts, they probally would now but hardly any1 knows i have them,...when i get to old then my parts will be for sale!