The Long Awaited: The Myth, The Legend, The Douchebaggery

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The head swap is not hard. I am pretty sure that someone from the Fair Lakes crew has the tools too. Or you can get them on ebay or similar now for less than $100 and re-sell them, or I am sure you can rent them on the forums. It can be done in one long day or 2 medium-long days no problem.

I'd say either pull your head and have it decked and tanked, buy a head from VAC with a core swap, or buy an ebay or junkyard head and prep it and sell yours. I think the hardest part is removing the exhaust manifold, and you've done that recently so those bolts should be fine. The rest is just time consuming.

The problem with an s52 or Scricks is I think they aren't really worth much power wise. I have driven an s52 and it felt like my car with the Schricks. I dyno'd back to back with an s52 car with m50 manifold and we made within 2whp of each other. You can't even buy a Schrick tune for less than $500 now.

The car is 180,000 miles old. It sounds like you just like to tinker. Save the money and use it for a beater then make big power later if you want.

One suggestion while you're in there is if you are keeping your head, swap to the upgraded retainers and keepers from the 96+ cars. You'd be silly not to do that.