Thinking outside the box

Steve,

Thos may indeed be the heads that the Booth/Arons team used to make their "hybrid", Frankenheads... I don't know.

But, what they did (and forgive me if I'm over-explaining this) was to take FOUR heads and make two out of them by horizontally slicing them in unequal sections so that when they put the two larger sections together, they had a head that was significantly taller than the originals. Two were cut 2/3rgs of the way down, and the other two, 2/3rds of the way up, if you can visualize that. Nobody else (no AMC teams, nor anyone else) had heads like these.

I'm ssure it took a monumental amount of work to get aeverythng welded back together, since I'm sure nothing matched, exactly. Probably leaked water like a seive, at first.

But, if they were originally CAST with those taller dimensions, that wouldn't be a problem. As I originally stated, NHRA didn't like the fact that they wone a LOT, and banned welded heads in Pro Stock when they got them worked out... in true NHRA fashion. I'm sure if it had been a Chevy, it would have been A-OK.

The problem, now, is finding a company that will gamble the R & D time and money on such an ambitious project for the L-A and Magnum engines.. Like I said; probably never happen... sigh.

Thanks for showing me those NASCAR "X" heads. I wasn't aware of them.

Bill