It's been said that Jim Bell will take his set to the grave. He doesn't need the money but if he still has them he is suppose to be at BG. Personally I see no purpose to having a set since NO CAR was ever produced with them on the car and unless you have a car with the factory invoice it won't add a dime to the value of your car as resto's are concerned. Which means you will pay far more to get a set then you will ever get for them. If you want to look like you have a set on your car, buy a set of TA S2 SE aluminum heads, and take a picture of a factory S2 head to a head porter and have him weld and grind with part #'s etc. When he is finished with that part take them and have them metal sprayed, so now a magnet will stick. It will be far cheaper than the 50K it will take to bring a set out of the closet. I know a guy who has a set with a car and invoice, shipped in the trunk with the whole S2 set up. I have seen the car but not the invoice. It will cost you 200K and then I doubt if he will part with it. Good luck! Also ask around, maybe someone has died and his wife wants to sell them. I know it's not funny but keep posting. You must post a price you are willing to pay otherwise I doubt if you will flush a set out. At one time I had 3 sets including 1 new set in the box but they are long gone by 35 years. I am making S2 billet heads and will have no use for a factory set. They will outflow the factory heads by more than double.
"Personally I see no purpose to having a set since NO CAR was ever produced with them on the car and unless you have a car with the factory invoice it won't add a dime to the value of your car as resto's are concerned. Which means you will pay far more to get a set then you will ever get for them." Ken Betts I never thought about that I do have the aluminum ones on my car and most people do not know what they are.
Guys think about it like this if you were buying a gs or gsx in 70 why pay for the stage 1 option when you could buy the stage 2 package. My plan was to put my iron stage two engine (early freeze plug heads) in my non stage 4 speed x. I would think that a car with factory extremely rare racing parts would make the car worth more than a stage 1 x which there are hundreds of. Gary Paine was kind enough to sell me a set which I had searched for years and to me it was a dream come true. How many people can say they have a good set of stage 2 iron heads especially with the rest of the package? To me they are a priceless piece of buick history, my only regret was not buying that experimental block to put them on....
Herb, If you are talking about our 455 experimental 4-bolt main block, it has been reunited with the experimental Stage 2 Tunnel Port heads, and Kustom headers it was originally delivered with. I can't see a better outcome possible..................as far as talking about a piece of Buick History. Duane
When I saw it at bpg a few years ago I was happy it was in good hands. It's because of the hard work of you and others that we still have these great events where the "history" actually shows up:thumbup:
If you really want a piece of history, find the 455 hemi heads Buick made. On the cover of Hot Rod mag. May 1970 I think!
Well let's see what it would look like in an engine bay then...How about a period correct 70 car with that monster installed in the frame rails?? That would be cool as hell..
Ken, I hate to tell you this but the heads in the Hot Rod Magazine article ARE our heads. There is an inside picture of Dennis Manner holding them. Pat, That's what Mark Reeves wants to do next, and by the way the entire motor was in the engine bay of a 69, not a 70. If we ever find a pic of the car with that engine combination in it we would re-create the car. Duane Sorry for the thread hijack, now back to the regularly scheduled program. Richard is looking for a good set of Stage 2 iron heads.
Do you guys know if the block at the bottom of the lake had a set of stage 2 heads? I'm talking about the 4 bolt block that was sunk. might be worth finding i the heads will sell for 20k Hector
