So I made some progress. I cannot stress the importance of having the correct tools for the job... I was having difficulties with this cheapo valve spring compressor, and spent like 1 hour to get one valve spring off. So I said forget this tool and went and got an actual nice valve spring compressor tool, 20 minutes later, had all of the valves out and sorted.
So I made some interesting revelations. The intake valve and exhaust valve are different sizes, but, the intake valve is double the size of the exhaust valve. Not sure why people are thinking these heads don't flow... But whatever. So the other thing I want to point out to is that the cylinder areas on the heads have an oblong milled out area where the stock pistons, with their oblong cut out on the surface, meet. What does this mean? While I may have deep valve reliefs in the new pistons, I need to have the heads milled out a bit to accomodate the increased piston surface area, or I am going to have higher compression ratio than stock and I am also going to have flow issues. So now that the valves are out of the heads and the heads are ready to go with the block for machining, the project is at a halt for a bit.
http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/a...orary-13-8.jpg
http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/a...orary-13-7.jpg
