Cobra Completion Fundraiser for 767Jockey

[CoolCarl]

Jockey, how are you feeling these days?

Last I saw you were hurting from all the chemo. Is that over and are you feeling better yet? I sure hope so.

[RICK LAKE]

767 Jockey Remove the puddy and have larger timeserts installed in the heads. Very easy to do. As long as a sealer is installed on them vacuum or exhaust will not leak out. My shelby heads have this done to them when a broke the 1st rocker shaft at Gateway. Have to watch the oiling hole to the heads and I grooved the ARP studs to the rocker stands.
Call the guy and ask about any other head work done to these heads?? Milling, cracks, when the valve job was done, how many hours are on these heads, you know check out questions.
Send them to my house I will do the work and send them to Ed.
If you get them for a good price, buy them. Have a good holiday Rick

[767Jockey]

Originally Posted by RICK LAKE

767 Jockey Remove the puddy and have larger timeserts installed in the heads. Very easy to do. As long as a sealer is installed on them vacuum or exhaust will not leak out. My shelby heads have this done to them when a broke the 1st rocker shaft at Gateway. Have to watch the oiling hole to the heads and I grooved the ARP studs to the rocker stands.
Call the guy and ask about any other head work done to these heads?? Milling, cracks, when the valve job was done, how many hours are on these heads, you know check out questions.
Send them to my house I will do the work and send them to Ed.
If you get them for a good price, buy them. Have a good holiday Rick

Hey, Rick!!
How are you, amigo? I owe you a call, we haven't spoken in a long time. I saw those Edelbrock heads, they're in the FE.com classifieds. Of course with the Jurassic software used over there the ad is probably buried on page 3 by now, but they're still there. The guy has them priced at $1250. All in all that's not a bad price for a set of ported Edelbrock's, in fact it's a good price. It's just more than I want to spend now since I have so many more things to buy for the car. All the guys here have been saying to just get it running and upgrade to cool stuff later if I'm able, and that sounds like a wise plan to me. I just want to drive this thing one day - hopefully I make it that long!!!

The heads that I posted above seem to be just what I'm looking for. Of course, what they're going for now has no bearing on what they'll actually sell for, as with eBay it seems things can double or triple in price in the last 15 seconds of bidding. I'm not sure what I should make my high bid on them, any ideas? They seem like nice heads. My sister lives about 20 minutes from the guy, I can always ask her son to run over there to pick them up for me and save the shipping if it's OK with the seller. One day when work starts on the car I want to get up to Ed's place to poke around, I was planning on seeing my sister in the Detroit burbs when I did that. I'll just go to her place first and borrow her car to drive to Ed's and take the heads with me. I guess I can always have her drop them at a shop in the Detroit area to have them checked over and make sure they're OK before I use them. There has to be a few decent shops to do that in the Detroit area. I have valve springs for them already, I remember that Russ sent a set that match the cam I'll be using in the 390, so I can have the shop mount the springs. I don't imagine that this would be a real costly job to do. What do you (and all you guys) think? Talk to you soon, Rick. I hope all is well with you.

[767Jockey]

Originally Posted by CoolCarl

Jockey, how are you feeling these days?

Last I saw you were hurting from all the chemo. Is that over and are you feeling better yet? I sure hope so.

I'm doing OK, Carl - thanks. It's a long road back, I'm on the two steps forward, one step back plan, it would seem. It takes time but I'm patient. Short term I'll probably be OK; long term, who knows. I tend to take things one day at a time now, I don't do a whole lot of future planning. Each day is sort of a gift, as corny and trite as that sounds. The car, this whole initiative that the guys here have done, in fact this whole website was a Godsend to keep me distracted and interested in something while the whole mess of treatment was underway.

If and when the car is finally built it's going to be very exciting to watch while I continue the climb back to normal, whatever normal turns out to be. Odds are there will likely be more treatment and issues down the road so the car will be something to keep me distracted from the day to day issues with that, so again I'm so thankful for that. Thanks for asking, and to ALL of you, once again thanks so very much.