Cylinder head Q Options

[village idiot]

Are they side specific? What I mean is, I see in the rocker boxes there's a number cast in the middle. One has a "1" and the other has a "2". Reason I ask is I just had new guides installed as well as the seats/valves resurfaced as well as the head sealing surface.

Now after installing the heads and trying to set the valves, I've had to back the adjusters waaay off just to get the rocker shaft/rockers back on. This doesn't seem normal to me, and I double checked to make sure the pushrods are seated correctly in the lifters. Am I missing something here?

Help! I want to put this car back together and enjoy it!

[McMark]

There are a lot of checks you can do right now to optimize your engine. The closer you can get to having each cylinder having identical stats, the better/smoother it will run.

CCing the heads is a good idea, measuring deck height is a good idea, etc.

Or you can put it together as is and it will probably run fine. It just depends on how long you want spend building it and what you want to get out of this motor.