I finally pulled the head off my original engine. A couple of years back I had installed Comp 127450 cams, 26125 springs and Comp phaser limiters while I was still N/A. It ran really good at the time (cams, JLT II cai, LT headers) and I knew that I eventually would go FI. I actually got a REALLY good deal on a BNIB FRPP non-intercooled Whipple kit ($2500!) a few months after I installed the cams. A couple months later I installed the Whipple and life was good. It was a few months later when I was on the way home from work and suddenly the car was down on power. I was a couple blocks from home so I limped it into the garage. Took the cam covers off and I found a broken follower, broken valve spring, and a missing exhaust valve. Long story short, there was a manufacturing defect on the valve spring that broke and Comp Cams sent me a check to cover most of the cost to swap in a used stock long block. The shop that did the swap for me still has the valve stem since it was in the exhaust next to the catalytic converter but I have the valve head since it was sitting in the cylinder when I pulled the head. I'm kinda surprised the cylinder is in as good of shape as it is. I truly think it could be cleaned up with a 0.010 overbore. I only felt one scratch that barely catches a fingernail. Of course the head and the piston were hammered pretty good. Here is the album with the rest of the pictures.
