mitchntx
10-24-2009, 07:43 AM
Basically a deal gone sour.
I sold a set of heads to buyer in Ashland, KY. We agreed upon a price, he paid for them and I shipped them.
Don't know what year they are from, but definitely LT1 aluminum heads.
Fully assembled ... came off of a long block I bought that had a vented opti.
Appear to have never been touched.
All threads appear to be fine, although I never chased them.
Need to be milled 0.015 or so to flatten them.
Once he got them, he found a knick in a spark plug seat and the first couple threads pulled from an exhaust manifold bolt hole.
I never really looked at the heads that close. I took them to my machinist as soon as I got them for use on a CMC motor I was having built. The 0.015 milling would have put me over the legal compression ratio limit in my class, I I bagged them and put them on a shelf in my shop.
The spark plug seat is easily fixable and the threaded hole looks like some one tried to use stock bolts with a set of headers.
Neither are huge issue as far as I'm concerned. But ...
He demanded his money back and I did so. Now he wants me to pick up the tab for return shipping. I'm so far into the heads now, I'm not going to throw good money after bad.
If someone wants the heads, they are yours for $50. I'll give you the name and address of the guy and you can go pick them up. I don;t have a phone number, sorry. That was mistake #2.
This is on the level. Look at my trader rating to get a sense of what kind of trader I am. PM me if interested.
I sold a set of heads to buyer in Ashland, KY. We agreed upon a price, he paid for them and I shipped them.
Don't know what year they are from, but definitely LT1 aluminum heads.
Fully assembled ... came off of a long block I bought that had a vented opti.
Appear to have never been touched.
All threads appear to be fine, although I never chased them.
Need to be milled 0.015 or so to flatten them.
Once he got them, he found a knick in a spark plug seat and the first couple threads pulled from an exhaust manifold bolt hole.
I never really looked at the heads that close. I took them to my machinist as soon as I got them for use on a CMC motor I was having built. The 0.015 milling would have put me over the legal compression ratio limit in my class, I I bagged them and put them on a shelf in my shop.
The spark plug seat is easily fixable and the threaded hole looks like some one tried to use stock bolts with a set of headers.
Neither are huge issue as far as I'm concerned. But ...
He demanded his money back and I did so. Now he wants me to pick up the tab for return shipping. I'm so far into the heads now, I'm not going to throw good money after bad.
If someone wants the heads, they are yours for $50. I'll give you the name and address of the guy and you can go pick them up. I don;t have a phone number, sorry. That was mistake #2.
This is on the level. Look at my trader rating to get a sense of what kind of trader I am. PM me if interested.