lead69
hopeless car junkie
To get them done at the shop would have been $800 in port work alone so a total of around $1,400.Not bad for the numbers if you already have the castings,if buying from scratch and no ability to port I would go with rhs heads every time.Every bench is different but the bench these were flowed on had a otb set of edelbrocks and they only flowed 230ish and 170,with a valve job they were 240 and 175,to me thats not a very good return for the money (heads+valve job+fluff and buff=$1,700-no port work).Regardless any head can be made to flow but needless to say my flow numbers had a few guys scratching their heads when compared to otb aftermarket castings.There was nothing special in the porting dept,just full port job,I do like the later casting heads exhaust short turn since you can get a really nice contour with some work vs. the j heads,although not a huge difference.LOL, well, I agree with you to a point and mostly I'll wave the flag for the iron head. Often, even with the cost of porting, they can be a better deal (cost wise) than a Edelbrock head. Cost aside, the Edelbrock with the same work would be a great head for alot of levels of performance. Then the work (Again, Cost aside) would make it an apple to apple like compare.
Also, alot has do with how you use the head. Flow numbers (Bigger) aint everything. ;)
Just wondering, had you paid for the porting work you did, what would the cost be in your neck of the woods.
(Also, please describe exactly what you did, Thanks :-D )