Reply With QuoteYou planning on running your efi? if so cleveland heads wont work unless you weld up an intake for them, or espoxy holmes.
Yup. I should have been more clear. I have a 86 Bronco with an EFI 302, manual trans yadda yadda. When I bought it, she was a basket case. I bought it, cause I hate myself and instead of sticking shards of broken glass in my eyes, I try to resurrect cars that are worthless, running or not. So, all I gain is the experience of dealing with a basket case.
Anyway, I was running super duper rich, and I had no idea why. The exhaust fumes would burn my eyes, like I was standing behind an blown alky hydro. So I did a leak down and found that the two middle cans on the passenger side would not hold air, and both the plugs were fouled. So I pulled off the rocker arms, filled the cans with air, and banged on the valves with a copper hammer. Low an behold, the valves seated and I got a good leakage reading. So mean while, I decide to pull of the intake manifold. I figure, while I am at it, I should get new gaskets everywhere since it's:
A: Running rich
B: Two cans are fouled
C: Shaking like a vibrating bed at idle
So I pull the manifold off and snap a couple rotten bolts. So now the heads need to come off so I can helicoil all the messed up threads. So that's where I am now. I went to the junk yard and got two new injectors to replace the ones that were shooting into the cans that were fouling. Also checked the heads for warping and cracks, etc. So I am at the point where I start putting it back together, and was wondering if I should find some nice heads. In all honesty, I should just run the ones I have. That way, I will really be able to find out if I determined the reason it was running rich and fouling two cans. If this doesn't work, then it might be the distributor module or the CPS. Fun times.. :jawdrop:
