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    1. 10-20-2009 #1
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      Major Meltdowns and Malfunctions

      Went to take the project out for a burn out the other day and heard what I thought was an exhaust leak so it stayed home... Today I went to work on it and changed out what I thought were leaky header gaskets, but to my dismay, the sound was still there. So, I went through each of the plug wires that I had recently changed out from stcok wires, to custom build your own to length, racing wires. I thought that maybe I had not gotten a good connection on one of them, but after all that, the sound was still there. Next, I decided to pull the valve cover; which is what I probably should have done first. The number eight cylinder valve train had serious problems. The exhaust valve rocker arm stud had broken off at the tip and let the poly locker, rocker arm and pushrod fly loose. The intake valve assembly also had a complete melt down and bent and sheared the tip off the pushrod causing it to make deep scratches into the rocker arm. As far as I can tell, it is faulted to the pre-assembled aluminum heads I got from procomp. The rocker stud sheared off causing all kinds of bull sh**. Bummed and dealing with some minor setbacks in the build.....
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      Damn that sux! Sad to say, but that definately ain't the only bad thing I've heard about Procomp heads. When you google them, all you get is a bunch of stories just like this.
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      Oh damn that does suck.98% of the time the complete cyl head
      deals (depending on mfg. co. and dealer) dont use good parts.
      When i got me world heads from a dealer,the valv springs sicked,
      broke a couple just at 6200.finaly bent a valve,lucky that was just cruising,took it appart and they were all concaved.Know with all the good shtuff in em ,same head good to 7500+,no probs for 4 ?? yrs know..
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      Exactly how those companys make their money on that shit. Fucked up.
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      Holly $h!t Ill never try to text and post at the same time again.... LLOOLL that post makes me look illiterate WTF !!
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      Quote Originally Posted by bluestreak View Post
      Oh damn that does suck.98% of the time the complete cyl head
      deals (depending on mfg. co. and dealer) dont use good parts.
      When i got me world heads from a dealer,the valv springs sicked,
      broke a couple just at 6200.finaly bent a valve,lucky that was just cruising,took it appart and they were all concaved.Know with all the good shtuff in em ,same head good to 7500+,no probs for 4 ?? yrs know..


      WTF????????? lol i thought you are Portuguese? but this post makes you sound Irish! with the "when i got ME world heads" LMAO just busting your balls man, i know it sucks posting from an iphone with those little ass letters on a touch screen
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      Quote Originally Posted by bigdaddy View Post
      WTF????????? lol i thought you are Portuguese? but this post makes you sound Irish! with the "when i got ME world heads" LMAO just busting your balls man, i know it sucks posting from an iphone with those little ass letters on a touch screen
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