Why buy any other head?
02-21-2005, 10:59 PM
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Why buy any other head? I posted the following on the Corvette forum and thought I would get the opinions of you guys.
Been looking and reading for a couple of weeks now about the various heads out there. I am wondering if there is any reason to buy anything but the Patriot heads. Stage III's seem to sell for the same price as others stage I or even stage II heads. All the reviews you guys are writing on the different heads seem to confirm there are plenty of good heads available from a variety of sources but Patriots heads are far less expensive. Am I missing something?
Gary
Been looking and reading for a couple of weeks now about the various heads out there. I am wondering if there is any reason to buy anything but the Patriot heads. Stage III's seem to sell for the same price as others stage I or even stage II heads. All the reviews you guys are writing on the different heads seem to confirm there are plenty of good heads available from a variety of sources but Patriots heads are far less expensive. Am I missing something?
Gary
02-21-2005, 11:23 PM
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As far as the bang for buck goes, the Patriots are "ok". They are deffiantlly not going to make the most power. There are many other head companies out there that make heads that flow as good, if not better with much smaller port volumes. Not to mention the flow numbers on there site don't add up to the flow numbers that have been independentlly found around here. Don't worry about Stages either. Just pay attention to port volume/cfm. That's a much better way of telling what is a stage 1,2, or 3. BTW, JRP's Stage 1 LS-1 FFHP heads out flowed Patriots Stage 2 LS-6 heads, for about the same price, if not less. Just goes to show you.
beast beat me to it 
02-21-2005, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Beast96Z
As far as the bang for buck goes, the Patriots are "ok". They are deffiantlly not going to make the most power. There are many other head companies out there that make heads that flow as good, if not better with much smaller port volumes. Not to mention the flow numbers on there site don't add up to the flow numbers that have been independentlly found around here. Don't worry about Stages either. Just pay attention to port volume/cfm. That's a much better way of telling what is a stage 1,2, or 3. BTW, JRP's Stage 1 LS-1 FFHP heads out flowed Patriots Stage 2 LS-6 heads, for about the same price, if not less. Just goes to show you.
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I gotta pull my intake back off. 