Head & Cam

[takoma9270]

Ok, Dodge family I need some help with this decision. I have a 86 Dodge Daytona C/S with a aluminum head and a 475 cam I bought from Forward Motion about 3 years ago and the car has a bad tranny so it’s been parked for about two years now. I found a great buy, A 90 Dodge Daytona VNT it’s in great condition but I tested the compression and I’m losing 10%. Now every ones saying I need to get a new head gasket soon or it just will get worse. So this is where I need help. I need to know if I take the 86 head with cam and clean it up then take off the 90 VNT head and cam, will the 86 head and cam fit onto th 90 or will I have to change a few things, I’m stumped. THANKS

[rhandwor]

I would pull the head from the 90 and take it to a machine shop and get a valve job take the cam shaft with you it would be cheaper to buy one from the machine shop if bad. I would also check gasket prices from the machine shop as they will need the valve seals. They can tell you if the cam shafts can be interchanged.

[damageincracing]

You may also want to check the rings. The head and gaskets aren't the only things that go bad that will drop compression.