Hey guys i need help! asap! i have a head that the thread on the spark plug is messed up....so i was gonna go to a shop so they could fix it and make new thread...they are chargin me $300..i was thinkin of i could put upgrade heads? or is there such a thing? cause i dont really know about heads tha much....:shifty: so can someone let me know if theirs upgrade heads or something thanks! alot

 

gonna' cost alot more than $300.00 to updated the heads to a full thread design

 

VT charged me $2,000 for a set of heads and a local shop said it would cost $1850 for install.

 

You get a helicoil kit and re-thread the heads yourself its very simple to do and they have instrctions with them. Harbor freight normaly has them in stock.

 

+1 on the heli coils. I don't know how you'd do it while the head is still on the car though.

 

it can be done, I had todo mine at the track once just so I could stay in the points:censored:

 

yea i was told theirs some kind of kit that makes the threads while ur heads are stil attached.....

 

How the hell do you keep the metal shavings from falling into the combustion chamber?

 

I have done with grease and keeping a vaccum there while i do it to suck the metal up, takes two people to do all of that though. Did it to my freinds 91 fox body.

 

300 bucks isn't a bad price for a helicoil job considering you'll want it done right the very first time.

5.0's are lucky though... you can find upgraded heads for a song. It'll still be at least 3 times the cost of the repair but you'll almost certainly see some power improvement.

 

bearing grease on the tap and then crank the engine over for @5 mins wth all the sparkplugs out

 

Grease is your freind when keeping metal out.

 

I never in a million years woulda thought of that. I'll tuck that one away for future use.