It might be time for some to move up to big block or over to the LS forum. lol
Suggestions for new design Aluminum Mopar SB clean slate (kind of) cylinder heads
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I don’t want nothin to do with no belly button LS. They just dont appeal to me. They can make 5,000 hp. Cool. I like my mopars.
Height is really not the solution, although it helps some. To really work well you need the port centered with the valve stem, and the only way to do that is with an offset rocker.
I am surprised someone hasn't put LS heads on a SBM yet since people love to mix and match parts in the hot rod world.
Tom
Like your red line drawing. I like it. But what does that do for the intake. It’s a snowballing problem. The deal, or was since its history now. Back when Chrysler went to the Magnum head, a short time later, the HEMI head was just coming out of prototype production and used by Scott Geofferion (sp?) in the new race cars. I had the good fortune to meet Scott and helped push the new HEMI car in Virgina. Dimwittie (sp?)
Me and my then best friend spoke with Scott shortly and he told us a secret, the HEMI was going to come back.
So messing with the aging LA/Magnum platform was over and the new hemi would take its place. And everything about the small block has changed over to the modern configuration. A totally different ball game. Right there and then, I knew the old school small blocks we play with today were over and just a matter of time before the MP catalog would no longer carry the parts like they used to do.
Raising the port without a pushrod being moved over is a good idea since you can get more port in a more favorable position. But this causes chaos with headers. Also, moving the intake upwards also causes chaos with dedicated intakes like the W2-W7.8.9.
An expense many cry & ***** at.
So your idea is a traveled path in a sense. Improve the head without the W head problems is really a limited game. As well as a limited crowd. This adds a great deal of expense.
( @Johnny Mac )
If the BP head has the meat to move the pushrod over if one desires and be meaty enough to port high into the roof and side walls, like the Speedmaster vs the Edelbrock or the W heads, it’ll be a big winner.
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