New heads!

Hey dudes,

I just picked up a set of 351 D00E-c 17 heads. I've never heard of these heads before, so I'm wondering if anyone can let me know if these heads are good for building, or for scrapping.

 

I've decoded the main info, made in 1970, they were drilled on either Fairlanes or Torinos. Eh, I'll keep it and get it polished and a better valve train system for it.

 

Can you take a pic of the combustion chambers? Are these Cleveland heads?

 

They might be, I couldn't get a 100% precise measurements of the valves and sparkplug chamber. However the intake (I think) was just above 2". So it's a very good possibility that they are Cleveland heads. I'll post pics as soon as I get home.

Right now I'm trying to figure out a decent setup for low-end torque and some mid-range play

 

Only problems is that these were Mariner heads, the valve springs limit the rpm to 4500 and there's like some ceramic looking build up in the coolant passages..

 

I'd just install normal valve springs. The c in that ID number you gave us should stand for Cleveland. That would be pricky, if Ford were to issue that designation on a Windsor. That ceramic deposit is ordinary calcium left there from hard tap water use. There are salts you can get which will dissolve all of that. Beware, though. Those calcium deposits make a great biological form of Bar's Leaks. Once the calcium is dissolved, don't be surprised if a rotten radiator or heater core comes out of the closet. Oops! I should be careful with abusing such descriptions, nowadays Afterwards, I'd use a combination of distilled water and glycol

 

Here's what I have so far

 

Could muratic acid work? I've seen it melt calcium and other minerals, but I don't know how it's chemistry is with iron

 

Just got back from driver improvement class LOL, took pics of the heads. Got most of the stamps and underbelly.

 

At the moment I'm soaking the rust spots in old oil, and seeing if wd40 can help clean the coolant passages

 

I don't think those are Cleveland heads. Clevelands have canted valves. Those look like Windsor heads.

 

Agreed, and the intake ports are too wimpy for a Cleveland.

 

Aw what :-(

 

This is what Cleveland heads look like. The OP's heads are not Cleveland.