Hi. I bought a house a few months ago and I found a pair of aluminum cylinder heads in the shed. They're small, but they are for a v8. Are they Buick 215 heads??? Help me find out.
There is a number under one of the ports that says "CFD 1358219" another that says 17PM, another that says 144 and another that says 219B

There was a gasket on it that says Victor (or victory) 15120

Please help

Dan, the #1358219 shows up as a 1964 Buick head casting for a 300 cid motor. This engine used aluminum heads.

Info comes from the stock car engine blueprint guide on the NHRA site www.nhra.com (http://www.nhra.com) Without doing more research, my guess is these heads were not used on the 61-63 215 cid engines.

Dan,
My AERA ( www.aera.org (http://www.aera.org) )software shows the following:

1961-1963 Buick 3.5 (215)
1979-1987 Rover 3.5
1989-1996 Rover 3.9
1997- Rover 4.0
We have a set of Rover heads we are working on at the shop, I can check to make sure they are the same casting number. Rover secured the rights to produce the aluminum Buick V-8 sometime in the 70's and they still build the engine to this day. It is almost identical to the original 215 other than a slight increase in displacement.
Hope this helps,