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Old 01-09-2012, 12:19 PM
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What heads would be the best for a forged 370 6.0L with a GT47-88mm ? Grudge car and some street action .
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Best? - Probably the most expensive ones you can buy...lol. You need to answer these before anyone can give you a real answer.
1. How much you wanna spend?
2. What HP/how fast you looking to go?
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4k is my budget . Not worried about dyno numbers . Goal is to run 8.80-9.0's.
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How much does the car weigh and how much boost can the shortblock take? It better have some decent internals.
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I'm building a setup close to yours and I talked with Tony Mamo from AFR and he recommended and AFR 230 with a hollow intake valve and his own hand portwork with upgraded 8019 springs. To top it off all titanium keepers and retainers. He quoted us $3850 for the heads.
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Around 3200#'s
Stock crank , Callies Rods, diamond pistons , ARP hardware .
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You are going to need something with a decent deck. AFR or TFS would be my choice. If you don't have an intake yet you could look into PRC or Mast rectangular port heads. Allpro makes a good head too.
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I have the Vic jr intake with cathedral port but I could always sell it ...
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Allpro's would be the best bet but over the 4k budget with good hardware. I would opt. for the TFS heads and spend the extra coin on good valves and valve springs/hardware.
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What compression ratio are you guys running with setups similar to what I'm building ?
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Im running 10 to 1 with lsa heads and ls9 gaskets with a pt88. I plan on running around 15ish pounds on pump gas and 20-22 on race gas.
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L92 Fox , what kind of numbers are you shooting for ? Dyno and ET's ?
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I think 750-800 wheel on 15 pounds is doable, and maybe 950ish on 20+ pounds. Im thinking low low 9s is doable for me with a transbrake th400. Im also running double adjustable coil overs all the way around.
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All Burkhart Chassis suspension, Afco DA all 4 corners , Aerospace brakes, th400 with brake . Burkhart 9" , 3.50 gear .
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The car is built for power , now I have to make the power .
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the 225 AFR heads i'm selling.. or something with a thick deck height
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I would prefer a set of AFRs or darts. Whatever I find good deal on.
Anything with the thickest deck available
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The AFR 230's are nice. Not so sure that you have to go all out with them either. I'd say that an out of the box set with the upgraded springs would be plenty good. I'd move up to the 245's before spending money on additional port work or fancy hardware.

The TFS heads wont work with the stock rockers so you have to add the cost of aftermarket rockers to that decision.

Mast has a few badass options but you'll need a matching intake. Not sure if you already had one.
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Originally Posted by g'sturboss
What heads would be the best for a forged 370 6.0L with a GT47-88mm ? Grudge car and some street action .
SAVE YOUR MONEY.

IF your car is built right and leaves right, you will run your 8.80s on stock, untouched heads, and you'll do it on less than 18 pounds of boost.

and, at that boost level you are not going to be lifting the heads if you know what you are doing tuning wise
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What ever heads I choose to get , will a solid roller cam help ? Or even a 50 shot . I'm wanting to get everything I can get out of the 370 with 88mm .


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