349 CI on the cheap

outlawracer said
For another $300 more than what you quoted you can buy a brand new set of aluminum heads and not have a set of old reworked stock heads. Also aluminum heads help the motor run cooler and help control detonation.

A 2.02 aluminum head isn't allways what the engine needs or can use. Running cooler is good. But an iron head is retaining heat for power and can run cool enuff for whats needed. If detonation is a problem, I would not be blaming heads so fast as there is also fuel and timing to look at.

No matter what you do to a stock set of heads they will never flow and make as much power as a set of out of the box eddys. Once again if a person is using a 360 the you saving the money of having to buy a crank or turn one down and the bore size is larger so that it doesn't shroud the vavles. Even with the 318 bore the eddys are perfect,

Your support of the Edelbrock heads is fine, but if your saying there perfect for a 318? I'm not sure one shoe fits all here.
While I'm not a guy with a flow bench and tons of motors under my belt, I'd like to know the division line areas for this.
A 2.02 in a 318 is a large valve. Something I wouldn't really bother with in most cases anymore.

I would actualy want 2.05 or 2.08 valves with a bigger bore. Unless you are using a pair of w2s your leaving alot of power on the table. When I build myself another motor I'm putting the Brodix ba heads on it

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But it's a 360 or 340 in a race body? Not a 318 right?

Thakns