BPE
Well-Known Member
I know it’s been a while but, things sometimes take waaaaay longer than expected and I didn’t want to show back up without real world results. I feel like the flow numbers thing is an issue that I get questions about all the time so, let me explain my side of things. And, please understand, I’m not trying to step on anyone’s toes or shame anyone else for where they’re at with their program. If manufacturers or someone else claims big flow numbers without actual track results or telling the combination, wouldn’t you be a little skeptical???? I would like to think that we all know flow numbers are relative to the bench. I understand the idea of buying something and feeling good about the money spent and then being disappointed in the outcome (I’ve been there) I’m no different than any of you when it come to that. Some of you may know the previous issues (1set) that I sold to a member here and it wasn’t up to my expectations. When that happened. I made no bones about making it right and pushing forward with something better. Since then, we’ve spent a lot of time on R&D and back and forth. I now feel more than confident to tell people about our updated program. My brother (Vic) and myself have worked together on this and are just trying to bring something better to the small block Mopar community. We both have 40+ hour regular jobs but,have always been into the idea of making SBM’s run. Anyway, enough about that, how about some actual back to back comparisons… This is a direct comparison between a Trickflow 190 cnc head and ours. The only difference was that I convinced the owner to not mill the heads to 60 cc’s because it wasn’t needed to pick the car up. After some discussion he settled on 65 cc’s based on what I already knew about both heads. He ended up with 3/4 of a point less compression (previously12.36 now 11.66) .This is a 422” run of the mill street/strip car that weighs 2985 lbs and uses a flat tappet Hughes 264°/268° @ .050” cam, victor 340 intake and a 4150 carb. With a small converter adjustment I think the et will get even better. The car picked up over 3 tenths but, the real story is where it matters and that would be the 5 mph increase. Weight of the car and mph are real indications of horsepower, not flow numbers!! I truly believe that we have the best standard port SBM head out there. This isn’t an anomaly, We have other cars out there that have shown to be pretty sporty as well and I will post them as time allows.
