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pittsburghracer

pittsburghracer

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First set is the set I put hours into moving the pushrod holes only to have the modified Indy intake suck oil real bad not once but twice. Not sure if the angle is off or what the issue is, so they sit unused. 2nd set has to get put on my black duster. This is my best to date set of stock location 2.08 valve Edelbrock head. I’m not finished with them yet and they went not turbulent but flow numbers rolled slightly. Now that I’m capable of doing a better valve job and setting the throat sizing right I’m betting I can milk a few more cfm out of them. I’m betting 5.80’s are within reach.

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TT5.9mag said:
Have you ever ported W2s? And how could I convince you to do mine? :usflag:
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I love W2 heads but I bought the wrong set at the wrong time. I bought them from a buddy after flowing them for him and him not using them. They were stock 3/8 valve (2.02) econo heads and hit 260 cfm at .450 and then dropped rapidly. I bought them and when researching them found that particular head was prone to cracking. At that point I knew I wasn’t going to put a lot of money (or time) in them so I found two set of rockers (Mopar performance and Crane) and found and ported a W2 Victor intake, and ported the heads quickly to around 305cfm, and with a Racer Brown .520 lift solid cam ram 9.80 on BP93 pump gas 408. Loved those heads but shortly after they leaked slowly as I heard they would. KD block sealer got me 2-3 years out of them and they leaked again. I was done with them at that point and sold the intake and rockers. Great head, heavy head, let me say that again, heavy head and I’m to old to lift heavy heads. Even great heavy heads. I bought one race set after that for a good deal with Norris rockers and sold them for a little profit. Love to help you and see what I could get out of a set with a 2.08 valve but I can’t. I fell in love with that short turn the first day I touched it.
 
Dang, I’d love to have you work some magic on em but I totally understand the heavy cast iron aspect of moving them around and flipping them 300 times to port em.
 
TT5.9mag said:
Dang, I’d love to have you work some magic on em but I totally understand the heavy cast iron aspect of moving them around and flipping them 300 times to port em.
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Great heads. Especially for their time period. I’ve probably gotten asked to do five sets in the last year. Thank God I’ve had enough Speedmaster, Edelbrock, and now LS work requests.
 
pittsburghracer said:
I love W2 heads but I bought the wrong set at the wrong time. I bought them from a buddy after flowing them for him and him not using them. They were stock 3/8 valve (2.02) econo heads and hit 260 cfm at .450 and then dropped rapidly. I bought them and when researching them found that particular head was prone to cracking. At that point I knew I wasn’t going to put a lot of money (or time) in them so I found two set of rockers (Mopar performance and Crane) and found and ported a W2 Victor intake, and ported the heads quickly to around 305cfm, and with a Racer Brown .520 lift solid cam ram 9.80 on BP93 pump gas 408. Loved those heads but shortly after they leaked slowly as I heard they would. KD block sealer got me 2-3 years out of them and they leaked again. I was done with them at that point and sold the intake and rockers. Great head, heavy head, let me say that again, heavy head and I’m to old to lift heavy heads. Even great heavy heads. I bought one race set after that for a good deal with Norris rockers and sold them for a little profit. Love to help you and see what I could get out of a set with a 2.08 valve but I can’t. I fell in love with that short turn the first day I touched it.
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Go lift a cast iron big block Chevy head and let me know how heavy you still think those W2s are.
 
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