Best performing non offset Small block Mopar heads
Thought I would check back in to this thread after the bashing i took on here sharing what i knew about newly available heads.
I gave all the info i had at the time about them and how they performed during drag week on a car i was mildly familiar with.
Rod and his brother Vic are both friends of mine that live about an an hour away.
They met me at a now closed track near where they live 20 odd years ago after they watched me make a wheel standing 9.80 pass in my 3350 pound Duster( full interior, back seat, uncut etc, etc) they were together that day and ran right over after I got back to my pits. In retrospect, it was pretty cool.
Rod sold well regarded stroker kits for years, then offered a new head offering. It was a dud.
Fast forward a few years, his brother Vic ( who had zero to do with the original effort) decided to do a head based 100% on just his work.
Unlike most everybody here, I have the advantage of knowing the skill he has. It’s elite. As a former engineer myself( yea, 16 years of my life) I appreciate intelligent, analytical people.
So I knew the results would be special.They indeed were. I bought a set myself, with only that dragweek car as a hard result to see. I put my money where my mouth is, i bought a set.
We now know they been like 9.30’s at 2870, almost 117 in the 1/8. With a nothing at all special, 11.4 compression flattop short block. Like to see somebody bad mouth those results. They can’t.
What upset me was people accusing me of having some stake in them. No, I am just a genuinely nice person trying to maybe point a couple of racers, not mouth runners toward getting some for themselves.
.Gonna guess he has probably 15-20 sets out there, and I know they are
available currently. Two members private messaged me recently asking for his contact info. I asked him if he would allow me to share his number.
People don’t understand what it’s like to be tied up on the phone yacking with people who have no intention of buying anything and already have a busy full time job. I know well myself exactly what that is like.
And frankly, Rod wants racers buying them, that are likely to have good results, don’t blame him.
So knowing that, I didn’t feel comfortable blabbing his contact info. I figured if somebody was serious enough, they would PM me or do a little legwork themselves. But you can’t please all the hyenas, 98% of who never had any intention of ever buying them if a billboard with the phone number was in there front yard. It’s the nature of the internet. I am old school enough, I sometime let that frustrate me, I need to get better figuring that out.
I learned my lesson though on trying to honestly be helpful. Everything I said back then ended up 100% right. Fact. Three years later I don’t see reading on here a single person who was yapping in this long thread that ever bought a set of these. Except me, and the guy( Michael) with the badass 5.80’s Barracuda( BTW that car is ultra sweet) who along with couple other people who know me, defended me.