AFR SBM heads (supposedly)

Not exactly, there are various brands of the same china head, including the steven sun stuff, but the trick flow is the only one assembled with decent parts and good enough quality to install out of the box. Other wise I agree. And the bloomer head is nothing but the china casting with a really good port job. And a 3k price tag

And with excellent hardware.
You poo poo the product, but the fact is, the head is WAY better than anything else available in a non offset head. Way better.
If it was so easy, why hasn’t anybody else come remotely close?
To me, I would rather spend 3k on a head setup specifically to my camshaft, than 2300-2400 bucks on a trickflow( or anything else) that is way down on power.
Most guys I know would kill to pick up 3 tenths( or more) for 6-700 bucks.
guys spend way more than that getting heads ported that still aren’t as good. I know, been there done that with my previous Eddie heads.

Sour grapes is all you are. Get with me when you can point out pump gas street cars running 9’s with non offset heads, that aren’t hacked up aluminum dash , gutted race cars. You can’t.