Do I need special tools? I was going to also have the heads looked at.

 

Not hard, just time consuming. You will however need an angle torque meter. After 93 the factory specifies torque with a certain degree of additional rotation after the preliminary stepped torque reading is acheived.

 

How much do you know about cars? If you don't enjoy working on them then don't get into it, its a long job.

 

It seems that a lot of people have trouble setting the valve lash; might want to search on that topic before you take on the job.

 

Gonna do the job myself (quoted aleast 1800$). I have the time, I just don't know what tools and kits I need. It seems pretty easy to take everything off, from reading the manual. Assuming the heads are ok (gonna do a compression test before I pull everything.), what do I need to do to them? I was just goning to take them in to see if the are ok, but someone mentioned value job? Also, which kit would be the best. I've read that the four piece intake gasket causes problems. You are supposed to use the side gaskets and RTV the front and back and let it set atleast 24 hours w/out touching it. Any links or help would be appericated thanks.

 

I got this link that might help out, since it shows a head and cam job but you can read it up and figure which you need to remove the heads, and how to do it. Just disregard the cam part http://afrashteh.com/guide/install.htm

 

Thank you, looks like a lot of fun. Gotta love muscle cars.

 

To pull the heads, I thought I had to pull the rockers and assoc. equipment off? The link makes it sound like you can pull the whole head off w/out even taking the value covers off.

 

Yes you need to remove the valve covers, there are 9 bolts under the cover. Like i said just read it first before taking on the task, cause there are things that you will not even remove. Also do a search for shoebox site and he might even have a better link then this, I know he will have the valve lash link so when you put things back together it will flow better.

 

anyone else know of a web sight that has more inof than the ones listed

 

There really isn't more to say that what are in those links. Afrashteh's guide is pretty much right out of the factory manual.