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Alright, I'm looking for some suggestions here. . . I'm going to be pulling the heads (or at least starting the job) today on my '93 Formula. I'm looking for ideas as to what I should do to them while they are out. I'm not looking to spend a ton of money, I was thinking maybe a set of roller rockers, replace the valve seals (the car burns a little oil on startup), heli-coil the spark plug holes, and re-install them. Quick and easy, and cheaper than sending them off to AI or Lloyd Elliot. I'm not looking to make a ton of power, I just want to get my car back on the road, and not have to worry about spark plugs falling out (that's a REALLY stupid problem to have). I'm going to be ordering the gasket set (Felpro) to reinstall everything, a new set of head bolts, and whatever else I need over the next week or so, and if you guys have any ideas, I'm all ears.
I would go a little deeper and have some machine work done, rebuild them, and have the intake ported as well, but when I started looking around the car yesterday, I found some more rust that has me worried, and I need to make sure I have enough money left to take care of that before I start driving it again also. The car will be at the Meet and Greet, but I'm not sure yet how pitiful it's going to look when it gets there, I'll be putting it through the paces over the coming weeks to get the body fixed up and ready for paint, iron out any mechanical and electrical problems it may have developed through sitting untouched for a year and a half, and replacing the parts that need it (like tires, battery, filters, fluid changes, window motors, etc.)
In looking at prices, I could feasibly order the things I'd need to put 1.6RR's on over a period of a month or so, and just wait to install everything all at once, and I'd come in at just over $600 for everything. There's plenty of work to be done on the car, I still need to gut the interior (to check for floorpan rust and repair rust on the rear wheelwells), the quarter panels need some attention, as does the front left strut tower, and I need to get some more parts ordered, but if I were to pace myself, I could probably have the car drivable, albeit in need of a paint job, in under 10 weeks.
Anyways, if you were me, and you were pulling the heads on a stock engine with bolt ons, what would you do to the heads while they were out? Keep in mind that I'm on a budget, and I'd like to be driving the car before the Meet and Greet.
I would go a little deeper and have some machine work done, rebuild them, and have the intake ported as well, but when I started looking around the car yesterday, I found some more rust that has me worried, and I need to make sure I have enough money left to take care of that before I start driving it again also. The car will be at the Meet and Greet, but I'm not sure yet how pitiful it's going to look when it gets there, I'll be putting it through the paces over the coming weeks to get the body fixed up and ready for paint, iron out any mechanical and electrical problems it may have developed through sitting untouched for a year and a half, and replacing the parts that need it (like tires, battery, filters, fluid changes, window motors, etc.)
In looking at prices, I could feasibly order the things I'd need to put 1.6RR's on over a period of a month or so, and just wait to install everything all at once, and I'd come in at just over $600 for everything. There's plenty of work to be done on the car, I still need to gut the interior (to check for floorpan rust and repair rust on the rear wheelwells), the quarter panels need some attention, as does the front left strut tower, and I need to get some more parts ordered, but if I were to pace myself, I could probably have the car drivable, albeit in need of a paint job, in under 10 weeks.
Anyways, if you were me, and you were pulling the heads on a stock engine with bolt ons, what would you do to the heads while they were out? Keep in mind that I'm on a budget, and I'd like to be driving the car before the Meet and Greet.
357ci LT1, cammed, stalled, and driven. 
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