360 build thread

Who ground the cam, Jones?

The heads as 2.02 versions from the factory are decent factory performance heads. You can go to see stock class nhra demons and dusters and find them in the high 10's to low 11's "in dedicated race cars", big difference there, but my point is made.The heads do 225-228 cfm by .500 lift as factory versions. If they just got 2.02 valves as an upgrade, they don't do as well in flow as the steeper throat cut from the factory does.imo
In the end they are not a race head, just a factory performance head for their street fighting sb v8's in The late 60's early 70's. They have been modified by countless people to race/compete with success, including myself, but there are much easier or faster to configure heads out there to use. I would port them a little, just to 255 cfm, 'doesnt take much' before i bolted them on to anything warmed up. Just spending 2-3 minutes an intake port "in the right hands" would have them around 240 cfm... The cam will use them up in their current form, good choice. Should be run good.

I know Tom did a little work when me installed the new valves, not sure how much though. Based on our conversation when we decided what to do, he didn't recommend putting a bunch of porting money into them and that if I would've gone that route to get some Edelbrocks and work those over. My goal was to try and use mainly stock parts and as much as what I already had while not trying to not break the bank. I have no doubt that I probably left some on the table not porting out the heads but I figured let's just see what it will do in their current configuration. I have my car setup for autocross/handling so that's the type of environment it will be running in, so that was the application that the motor was designed for.