Trick Flow 440 heads, The Real Deal?

younggun2.0 said

looks like these are going onto my 383 soon as i get them back!

what head gaskets do you recommend for the 383 with a .030 over bore ( 4.280). the 8519PT1 says it is a factory replacement and not intended for performance use. or are they just fine?

What head bolt kit do you recommend? I like to use ARP when possible.

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I use the 8519PT1 to 12:1 and I've never had a failure with them.

TrickFlow recommends ARP 145-3609 head bolts in their instruction sheets.

I'm with Mike, I see these heads as the real deal.

The spring pockets are super thick. The ports could easily go MaxWedge tall but you would have to bell mouth the sides of the ports around the pushrod holes to get the width.