Tom Mobley
Newbie
Kristian,, I think you need to stop here and re-evaluate you plan. I've seen a lot of these builds go off the rails because there wasn't a good plan in place before starting. Kind of like the old saying " the cowboy got on his horse and rode off in all directions." I see you getting a lot of good advice from techinspector1 and myself here but you need to decide whether you want to proceed with rebuilding your engine with the stock heads or move on to aftermarket aluminum heads. doing away with the EFI has implications beyond just unbolting the the TB and tossing it. You need to understand what all that is. For instance, does the transmission have a locking torque converter? if so, is this controlled by the computer? are there other functions of the truck controlled by the computer and what's going to happen to them if the EFI is done away with? You can probably get help with understanding this stuff from the guys here on this forum. Due to your location it could be extremely inconvenient and expensive to have errors here.
One thing: it's difficult to get good valve job work here, I'm not at all certain you can even get it there. Do you have a machine shop in mind? Do you know if they have a Serdi or Sunnen machine and the tooling and experience required to work on these heads? Or maybe there's a European equivalent of this machinery that I don't even know about? The AFR 265s may be a better option than you're thinking.
The roller cam upgrade is critical IMO.
One thing: it's difficult to get good valve job work here, I'm not at all certain you can even get it there. Do you have a machine shop in mind? Do you know if they have a Serdi or Sunnen machine and the tooling and experience required to work on these heads? Or maybe there's a European equivalent of this machinery that I don't even know about? The AFR 265s may be a better option than you're thinking.
The roller cam upgrade is critical IMO.