Which heads to get?

DakotaDuster said
I asked because everything I've read(which is admittly not a lot) about Edlebrock heads inparticular was that you need to put a lot of money into them it seems. So I was curious aside from the weight difference why you couldn't put the same money into steel heads and have similar performance. Thanks for the info and input guys.

Incorrect. Having a machinist check it out is considered a good thing by some. I ran mine OOTB without issue. I have zero dollars into my heads after I opened the box and run them into the low 12's.

You can run low 12's with stock 2.02 heads. It's all combo dependent.

You mention, well, since you may have a set of good 308's or an X or J set, what would you get from spending the cost of an Edelbrock head on the OE iron head? A lot, but probably not as much as a ported Edelbrock would flow, but for surely better than a OOTB Edelbrock head.

The problem is the ceiling on OE iron heads. They flow only so well. And an aftermarket head will flow better when the same amount of porting is applied. But the ported OE head will out flow the OOTB head every time.

The current Edelbrock price is somewhere around $1500 for the pair.
That's a whole lotta porting that can get done here!

couper 340 said
Hey stroked 340, where did you get heads ported for $300.00? The cheapest i found in Maryland is $800.00 to $1500.00

He said ported? He did say work into them. At $300, it sounds like a valve job and base clean up.