i would guess (without any #'s) they are 302 heads. year? but they have been machined for screw in studs. i dont know how big your town is, but for free i'd go get um!
ya theyre definatly 302 heads but ive had a set of small valve/large combustion chamber smog heads rusting away outside for months. if theyre just crappy no-performance heads i dont want to waste my time or gas lol
they didnt have the sloted pushrod holes, so that rulls out the early 289. they dont have the peddistals for the rockers so i thought they had been machined. but i forgot about the rail rockers. so yea id say crappy old, big chamber, small valve, low compression, short winded, little runner, low on performance, 302 smog motor heads! yea i wouldnt want them either
I don't think those are smog heads, they're at least small chambered. Do you know the casting numbers?
look at the pics again guys, turn your heads....e7te...right>?? take em, 87 302 heads they are definately worth the price.
free is always good, but if they're C8, C9, D0 or E7 then i would get them. otherwise, i prolly wouldnt fool with them
It appears to say E7TE on them ...they are nothing really special, but they are one of the better stock castings.
They look like E7TE's to me too. And those aren't screw in stud pedestals. The 5/16" threaded holes are the obvious clue there.
If they had been milled the top of the stud boss would be square to the stud holes. They have been tapped but it looks like it was not done correctly for studs and guide plates.
These heads were orginally pressed in studs. The holes appear to be tapped. They are not late model because the bosses would be machined to place rocker fulcrums in location slots. To make them correctly accept stud mounted rockers, the bosses would be machined flat at prescribed height and holes would be larger to accept good screw-in studs. As shown, they are useless without finishing the job correctly.
None of the small block pedestal heads had slots machined into them to locate the rocker pedestals. That was a Cleveland and 429/460 feature. The small block heads used a stamped steel channel that fits under each pair of rockers per cylinder. The pics he posted are std run of the mill E7TE heads and have not been modified for screw in studs.
