New heads on the way for my Dart, few changes

B3422w5 said
good post!
I dont know if i ever said this head would be ready “ next week” type thing.
Its a limited production type thing, and was always going to be. Anybody seriously wanting a set should be able to get a set if they are patient. This isnt an assembly line type deal, each head has a narrow pipe its coming down the production line from..lol.
Not sure exactly how many sets of cores Rod has, but i do know he has more than the sets currently in the works that are already spoken for.
The fact is, at 2600 dollars still needing a spring package, its unlikely its ever going to be something the average Joe blow would cough up that much cash for. We have a finite target audience in the smallblock Mopar world.
With the advent of G3 stuff, it makes LA stuff less viable as time goes on, to some. The rest of us become even older dinosaurs
Based on the results i have seen with this head, i think i can say with confidence its indeed a 9 sec head. A typical 3000 pound bracket car with compression and a well specced roller will do that i think easily.
The only reason i am going with these heads is my knowledge that the guy who designed them by himself is an ultra sharp guy who has proven his chops to me time and again.

This will be an interesting comparison regards W5 heads.
Years ago, i had an eddie headed stroker with an extremely similar cam/ compression to what i currently have right now, it ran very similar to what i have now runs.
One winter, i took the eddie top end off( moderately ported eddies), excellerator and TTI step headers off the flattop 416 and sold all of it.
Ryan ported me a set of W5’s( first set he ever did) bought a massaged Victor W2 Brett had used on his W5’s, and bought TTI W5 headers.
I put this top end on my shortblock…Went 10.38 at 128-129 ish( don't remember now) right off the trailer. My cars are never light, because none have fiberglass, all have a street/ strip mission, and all have my 320+ pound butt behind the wheel.
That combo lived until mid August that season, when i broke the Eagle cast stroker crank
I figure if i can get within a tenth tenth and a half of that, with smaller headers, not as good a carb as i had then, and a bit less lift… the new heads will exceed my goals.
I think and hope they will. We will see.
They aren't as big, thats for sure.

Thanks. You never said they were readily a available like a off the shelf head but you did champion them in such a fashion from my point of view, which isn’t a bad thing but they are not, as you stated, a high production head modification readily available like a off the shelf head is, or can be produced in such a major.

I certainly DO NOT want to put words into your mouth or create anything less than what I have seen is an excellent and honest reputation of yourself.

As mentioned before, it’s a damn shame the MP W5 head program went the way it did. As far as I’m concerned, Chrysler/MP got screwed big time and hard as hell from the crap work done for them. It was wrong all day long. On top of that, it all happened before the internet was anything but a new born baby and the corrections to the head never really became known to the public. Confidence in Chrysler/MP’s W5 head fell through the toilet, never mind being flushed down the toilet. IMO, the bad wrap was never over come. A good casting would prove the design and capabilities was more than adequate. IMO, it was a bit expensive though.

The whole W5 program should have been saved and tweaked in the heads ports and intake manifold area.