349 CI on the cheap

outlawracer said
In your orginal post you where talking about using a stock 360 crank and turning it down, not buying a one new. 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.
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, 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.

Outlawracer,
Your correct in the fact that I used a turned down 360 crank but then I found cranks with this work already done and the cost was very close, so why not get a new crank before turning one down.

As for the heads I've seen the eddy's on my bench and believe me they arent what you think that they are. I've built many engines with factory heads that would run and hide from a stock set of eddy's. And I have fully ported eddy's also, but to say that the eddy's are that much better than a good stock head thats ported is rubbish. Eddy's only flow in the 240's at both .500 and .600 from the factory let alone fully ported they flow 290 to 300. I've done this with a set of 587's, and 915's, with 1.88 intake valves, so to say that the Eddy's are the clear winner is a misjudgement on your part.

Once again the idea of this thread was to use a 318 block and not a 360, if you want a 360 by all means do one. But then we both have different views on how to build engines, with both of us thinking that were right and I'll leave it at this.