the flange will not look quite as pollished, as it's ran for about 5 minutes after this photo was taken.

I will include the cams and buckets. As of right now, they are removed since this picture was taken. Tensioner is also removed, and I can assure you everything is in working condition (aside from a valve problem... i'll get to that)

Now, for the reason I'm selling it.
I recently had rebuilt the head with brand new valves becuase a timing belt broke on me and belt them. The head ran beautifully when I re-installed it on the block for about 4-5 minutes, and then began to make an annoying loud knocking/tapping noise.
I removed the head only to find that the valves I purchased were JUNK (or atleast I can assume they are) as one of them had completely pulled apart... I mean litterally pulled apart from the retainer, and was in 2 pieces. I've thuroughly inspected every inch of the head, and there was no visible or noteable damage done to the head itself, the only thing I came across was a small gouge in the piston where it had knocked into the valve a bunch of times.
I then concluded that it would be cheaper for me to just purchase a used head for 200 dollars (APH head) with valves already installed, than it would be to rebuild this head with brand new (good) valves. I feel like a fool for going cheap with the valves, and I'm paying dearly for it.
Let me go over some of the details
AEB large port head off 99' A4.
Valves ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED (still installed with lifters/retainers, save the broken one)
CAMS and BUCKETS will come with it, unfortunately I had to retain the intake cam position sensor, as the car would not run correctly (stalled) without the AEB sensor. Also had to retain the camshaft sprocket as the timing belt would not sit right on the APH camshaft sprocket.
I'm asking 270 for everything (Head and components - cam sprocket/position sensor)

PM if interested.

 

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