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I did in fact opening them up. Thanks

Great advice. Thanks

Looking at these passages on each head where the pan mates up. Sounds to me like perhaps I can install as is and move on. I’m in eastern Wa and will be a fair weather driver in this car

Did some googling and it sounds like it may be in my best interest to use some high temp rtv on crossover passages on the heads prior to pan install. This sound like a good plan of action?

I’m running the stock exhaust manifolds but plan on safety wiring the choke/ buttery open. That said; sounds like I don’t necessarily to worry about opening the passages on the valley pan?

Any inputs on these passages not being open on the new pan?

Thanks WileE!

I’m in the process of putting the top end back together on my 440hp with 906 heads and my new valley pan (felpro kit 1215, pan #90299) is much “flatter” than the pan (#9546) I removed. It looks like it will “collapse” into place with the intake when torqued down but this doesn’t pass the sniff...

Thanks for all the input(s) gents. After doing some online educating, watching some vids, and reading y’all’s advice; there’s no reason not to tackle this myself. Merry Christmas all!

Thanks for this. I’ve done some reading/educating myself a bit and this is exactly what I’m going to do. Intimidating when doing this for the fist time and on a build I spent far too much on (not sorry) but it really is way doable. Thanks again

lol. That’s one way of wording it. But yeah; I think I will let someone with experience do it this time around

Why would different pushrods be needed in this situation? Are you saying if rockers were adjusted out of spec and resulted in bent rods?

*isn’t giving me that info that is..

Reading up on that exact concept led me to this post. I’m unfortunately a bit ignorant to valvetrain variables if you will. Can I tell by visual/physical insp if mine are hyd or mech or is this a question for my eng builder? Build sheet ppwk is giving me that info. Thanks

You’ve stated exactly what’s going through my mind. I’m thinking my best bet may be to touch bases with my engine builder. There’s some variables here that aren’t giving me the warm fuzzy on doing this for the first time