Cammed 380+hp Dakota Motor CARNAGE!! 

Old post but you speak the truth. One would be far better off to buy the bare EQ heads and have a competent machinist install the valve train. I found out the hard way.

For sticking a valve stem in a guide my 1st thought is dirty assembly and/or insufficient initial lube on the guide/ stem. I concur with advice to disassemble and verify clearances and clean and lube before reassembly. I don't know if you need to disassemble the short block or not. But if you don't I'd compare all the piston deck heights to make sure the rod didn't bend, too. If you do pull it apart, you need to make sure the dented piston hasn't damaged ring lands and of course check the rod for straightness.

It looks like someone took a shit on it

The intake manifold has shit results, stay away from the air gap! Intake was built for looks, waste of money.

Or...put that Viper motor in it and really rock!!!!!

Ironically I just read this in hughes web site, to make sure the heads have bronze guide liners.

Yup, known issue. Make sure when you get your EQ heads they have bronze guides.

Yep got mine with bronze guides from Performance Injection Equipment. So far so good!

ArcticAstrophysics we slapped a new valve in it and opened all the clearances. I cant remember how much he charged though.

I got a Hughes air gap on my 5.2, mostly stock. Its a nice 600 buck hunk of aluminum. MPG went from 20...to 20! What a difference. Just revs real fast, that's only thing I've noticed.

I'd like to know what ECU he's using too. I've got pretty much everything done to mine that I want but I also have the OBD1 and I'm having troubles figuring out how I'm going to run it

you can tune obd2. you cannot tune obd1. look up "megasquirt ecu". you wire the harness to your stock sensrs and can tune it yourself, or get someone else to. megasquirt 2 is a good place to start.

Ray Guys he's obdII and has a custom tune. Not too much can be done to the obdI setups other than trying to get your hands on an old Mopar performance computer (basically obsolete) or go on eBay and buy the jet tuner they make for obdI V8 Dakota's.

Use the chev system Watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wBf1UWzEevc.html

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2 of them actually...

Niceee

@Ricardo Alcaraz 360

@@UnitedWeSlide nothing worse than finally getting it it to go and it craps out ya, I feel the pain.

@@UnitedWeSlide back in the late 70's, I put a 340 4bbl intake with the carter thermo quad, a mallory dual point dristributor and a monster of a mallory coil on top of a 318 in a 71 fury 4-dr sedan. Already had duals . thats when I learned ya can't dump that much gas down a 2-bbl valved 318 head, lol. The car was a slow ass dog leaving the stop sign but it had some amazing top speed. From a rolling start it could tear up a light chevy bodied 350. Fastest I took it to was 127 mph. I had ordered a cam kit for it which would have worked but moved to another state before it came in, never got to finish what I started. Back in those days, mopar did not build a 4bbl version of the 318, they were just 'service motors'. Only way to make em hotter was either 340 heads or a cam. Or both, lol. I had built the car from scrap yard pieces. The body was and X louisanna state trooper intercepter, orginally had the 440 but it was blown, I used the motor, trans, and rearend from an old 69 that the wiring had been butchered but I kept the interceptor cooling system, charging system, suspension, etc. It was afun car.....plain jane as could be. Wish I would have finished it, it was on its way to being the perfect 'sleeper'. Oh well, days gone by......I just finished the 'plenum gasket' issue on my 98 ram 1500 with the 318 this past friday, what a difference! Fixing to order a cold air intake. Trucks nothing fancy, short bed regular cab. Got it sanded and primed and was ready to block sand and finish coat the paint when the gasket issue showed up. I have had the truck 7yrs now, paid 1500.00 from the original owner. Its showing 186K on the clock. Got my hands on some wheels and plan on putting a set of A/T's on it. Where Im at there's not much street trucks anymore, all these yahoo's putting 24's and low profile mudders, haven't figured that out yet, lol.. The truck nowhas sentimental value to me as I am a recovering lung cancer survivor and all the body work and sanding was good therapy, helped me through the chemo and radiation,(thats somerough stuff), but hey, its been 5-1/2 yrs and the doctors had give me 'about 90 days', cancers gone but I am a bit beat up from it still, but I'm still around and playing with my toys, lol......

Mambito ! Its my buddies daily now, he is getting a dyno tune soon for it. Excited to see what it makes.

Valve is bent

Alex Wagoner Mopar M1 intake. Made for efi

Where can i purchase one? Ive looked on Jegs and Summit Racing, neither place has one.

www.hughesengines.com/Index/products.php?browse=category&level0=Qi0gU21hbGwgQmxvY2sgRG9kZ2UgTWFnbnVt&level1=SW50YWtlIE1hbmlmb2xkcw==&partid=24773

97 Explorer Hughes FI airgap on their website hughesengines.com part number 5409

chvydrptop New heads, the shop that assembled them had the clearances too tight.

@Camp Exist i ordered some eq heads for my 5.9 magnum about a year ago. Installed them as is, i always assumed if the heads are assembled they are set to correct specs.

saltododges hipotek 210xp camshaft

Yes this would be my recommendation or if you get assembled ones, just get them checked before u install.

travis triplett Mopar M1 intake

These are not stock heads or stock valve springs. The valve guides were wayy to tight from the company that I purchased them from. Machined the heads again and the truck has been running great for months.

I got one on my 96. Nice $600 hunk of aluminum. Only thing it did for me was make the engine rev faster and you can see the distributor again. Then again, my engine is bone stock.

Yea, I need it to finish a 408 stroker I put together for a 89 Chrysler Fifth Avenue.

brandon richard going in a bmw haha

Jose Ortis yes sir that’s what i’m doing as we speak. If you have a shit ton of questions like i did, ill help you out just lmk if you want my email

Just a stock transmission

it wouldnt happen to be the 5 speed manual would it??

chichie if it’s a 5.9 360 it should be the 4 speed automatic, the 46re. The 5 speed nv3500 would be on the 5.2 318 and 3.9 v6.

chichie I wish. 4 speed auto

Yea, diff cam profiles for what you have planned. Towing, street/strip, daily. Give a call to Performance Injection Equipment. They sent me a cam based on my needs.

noeyankees89 yup we plan to have at least 4 of our cars there 😎👍🏻

by the way this is chris's son

Raykwon Jakes everything is depending on you computer. Call flyin Ryan performance or do the shit I'm doing and put a low deck big block + 4 speed manual.

Korie Creson nice. Will the truck run fine if you had basic bolt ons like long tubes,intake etc.. with no tune? Stock computer?

@@TheBb6prelude I have a 5.2 with headers & intake mods. Ran it that way with no issues. But, with more serious mods, definitely get it tuned.

Bryan Metzler Jr Mopar M1 Intake

Get rid of that 4.7 asap they are crap engines and not very reliable long term. The 5.9 is a solid engine but the 46re is the weak link in any dodge truck.

Chris Atkinson yea ive been thinking about hemi swapping it and getting the trans built

The hemi isn't better than the magnum engines we have. The so called hemi they make now isn't really a true hemi and the valve seats fall off into the cylinders destroying the engine all together. I thought about the hemi swap but as a mechanic I see them fail too much the magnum engine is a solid power plant it just cant breath from the factory. I thought about an ls swap too going 408 next year with a rear mount turbo. My 46re just failed for the third time after being rebuilt 30k ago. Going level IV this time to handle the engine I plan on building.

Chris Atkinson yea im not sure what im gonna do but im gonna build it one day but right now im workin on a 90 camaro

Chris Atkinson yep I'm on my 3rd tranny in my 94 zj 5.2, I can't remember what all it had done but it was alot. It's been great since. But the 5.2/5.9 engines are hard to put down if maintained properly, my engine has almost 300,000 and runs strong.

aaron marcon Custom

Cheyanne Stafford It is fuel injected. Cruise around online a bit. Many people have swapped to carb.

this is her boyfriend im the one building the motor and trying to go old school as i can get rid of a lot of wiring and computer its a off-road mud sult just looking for pointers

Korie Creson its all fixed. Valves were wayy to tight.

The music is gayer than the color

@@chrisbrueckel9477 right

Machine shop that I purchased the complete heads from tossed them together without checking clearances in the valve guide. They were all so tight they needed to be hit out with a punch. Honed the guides, set all the clearances, and its been running great for months now. But youre right, I shouldnt be messing with any of this. Totally my fault haha.

United We Slide man dont even sweat it anyone building somethin has made mistakes dont matter who did what shit happens, you fixed it youre the fuckin man haha

Hank Seales I have a .30 over 427 that's making a healthy 550 N/A hp I'm wondering if I should go turbo's or blower

William Crowell clearances in the motor and everything were good. The heads came assembled. I didnt think I needed to get the heads disassembled and checked. They were supposed to be ready to go.

United We Slide yeah you can never trust pre assembled heads does not matter what manufacturer you got them from or how much you paid always take em apart and measure everything