Hughes big mouth heads

Crazy? No.
It’s a bit of a stretch but if the engine size and combo are conducive with a high rpm ability of all the parts on/in it, I’d guess there would be a few people out there that could make it happen. I don’t see many motor heads achieving this alone.

The thing is, the rough rule of thumb is 2hp per 1cfm of head flow which has us at 638hp. Making up the power adds up to 375cfm head for 750 hp. The missing 112hp is a lot!

What does it take to exceed the 2hp per cfm?
A lot more than I know! Certainly a lot better build than I normally have.


Just for example my buddy’s engine (408) made 638 horsepower with a set of heads I did for him. I was really restricted on chamber size so I wasn’t really happy with my flow numbers maxing out at. [email protected]. With my ported Super Victor intake it knocked that number down to 302. Matt ran [email protected] at 6400 rpm in some terrible weather conditions. One conversion chart I used said at 3200 pounds it made around 596 and the other chart said 611 so with some half decent weather it should be close. Slightly over .650 lift cam. You know me and horsepower numbers but I was bored.