Here is the shop-made driver that drives on the top shoulder of the guide, it is piloted and counterbored so as to miss the sharp-edged, tapered portion at the top of the guide.
The guides were reamed and honed to proper size and then the valve seat counterbores were machined.
The seats were machined from C63000 bronze. This material is a superb heat conductor, has a similar expansion rate to the aluminum heads and is hard enough for unleaded use. They are machined to a .007" interference fit in the heads and radiused (.062") so as not to broach any material when installed.
The heads are heated to 400 degrees F and the seats are frozen before being driven into place.
Here is a photo of the shop-made driver, note the o-ring to hold the seat in place on the driver.
Once the seats are installed they are contoured to match the combustion chamber shape.
Then the actual seating surfaces are cut (as well as a 60 degree back-cut and 30 degree top-cut) and zero seat runout is verified using a shop-made runout gauge.
Here are a couple photos of the runout gauge and a pilot.
Next step is to match the combustion chambers for volume (cc'ing) and then many fun-filled hours at the flowbench working on the intake and exhaust ports.
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