A fair point there mate, i will be doing it for 2 reasons,

1) i want to learn
2) essentially ALL of the 'stage 3' heads you see for sale on ebay will be shocking, even some heads i have seen pictures of from so called 'decent' companies are crap, i will post up some pictures of Karlos's head which is brilliant (although not what i will be doing as such) then compare this to some of the 'stage 3' heads you see on ebay, the difference is MASSIVE but thats why his head was a grand not £200.....

Unless it has been ported by a well known company OR by some one i trust who is intelligent enough to know the rights and wrongs then £200 is an expensive fail.

Trouble is, its very easy to make a head worse than stock, im going for a good flow improvement and a head that compliments my engine which is a 6000rpm lump with stacks of low-mid range torque, not out right power.

Rob,