866 V8 gasket set locating

[terry]

4 hours ago, AZB755V8 said:

Glad to see someone else interested in 865/866 V8s. They were a one driver engine and abused buy most. First thing is dropping seats is not uncommon. The bad thing is ALL of these engines that I have worked on have Cracked heads. So much so that it took 4 engines (12) heads to find 4 accetable ones for my rebuild. (3) no cracks one with a small crack. I found a good rebuilt longblock later on and sitting since. The best that I could find 25 years ago. The issue is that heads crack though the injector hole from intake to exhaust so both seats are jepodized. Oversize seats will not fix anything as the crack will always be there and will open up with time and overheating with a driver with a lead foot. This dropping seats carried over to the E9s but was due to not enough press fit from seat to head seat bore. I dropped seats in E9s as well.

I do have the same unstarted rebuilt 865/866 longblock for $3000 plus shipping. It was a spare for my B-755 and not needed anymore. Safe alot on finding parts and labor. As long as head bolts are the later smaller hex ones not the old large hex I have had no issues with poping bolt heads.

Good price on that long block if a guy needed it!    terry