Swapping heads??

[charlE30]

I've snapped two rockers in my mint red 88 325 and have a second 88 325 (bit of a shed), my question is can I swap the heads over until the brocken rockers are sorted? Both engines have the same L shaped idle valve so I'm assuming that they are both early 2.5's or will this swap cause problems??

Any help on this one much appreciated

[chu346]

Why would you want to do that

You can do that, but you may aswell fix the rockers as you've got the head off!

[charlE30]

I'm going to sort the broken rockers while the heads off as I've now got all the parts .
The tappets are much louder than my other 325, this is why I want to swop the heads over .

Still don't understand why the rockers snapped as the previous owner had the head rebuilt at a cost of Ԛ£1100 (have receipt) about a year ago at a reputable BMW specialist. What's even more confusing is that it's done 50,000 miles less than my 'other' 325 and feels slow in comparison???

It's a pain this happened now cause I've got an E34 M30 3.5 lump sitting here waiting to be fitted, just need to collect gearbox and a few other bit's....