BlackTTC6

Has anyone tested out these heads? Friend of mine has a pair along with the LT4 manifold for 1500 dollars and i'm actually thinking about picking these up for my LT1. Any experience? Good? Bad? Thanks

96capricemgr

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Have you looked into just how BAD the rest of the LT1 Edelbrock stuff is?

IMO trying these would be going out on a pretty thin limb because the heads,cam and intake SUCK.

MEAN LT1

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Do you have them on your car?
Have you made any passes with them on the track?.

What makes these heads so bad? Honestly if you havent run them you cant say anything about them. Are there better choices out there?....yes. But if you getting a good deal on them, why not try.

thesoundandthefury

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http://www.edelbrock.com/media/news/.../091407-1.html


You can get better performance out of an LE1 heads/cam package for $300 less.

96capricemgr

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The Edelbrock LT1 package makes a whopping 396FLYWHEEL HP and most people have come to expect that number from a ported LT1 heads setup and some guys have done substantially better than that.

The intakle was recently tested and lost HP over a stocker, likely due to the extremely small plenum volume, even after they added a bigger TB I think the intake/TB combo only made 4hp more than the stock intake and stock TB. Crap is SAD meant to seperate those who blindly buy on brand name from their money.

LT4POWR

i agree

slomarao

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Their heads, no way.

Their copy of a LT4 intake, maybe. But most likely no. I would just cut and weld a LT1 intake.

Go with Llyod Elliot if you want proven performance. One man on a mission to make all f bodies race cars. Whats not to like about the guy?

PNYKLR-TA

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i second that one, plus edelbrock is seriously just a brand name, if you have money and want to tell everyone you have edelbrock intake and heads and cam blah blah blah because they have heard of edelbrock and that sounds more impressive to them then Llyod Elliot , which if they knew anything about our cars in general they would know LLyod is twice as good and still cheaper.

youre call from here on out buddy.

grn95t/a

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well put! i second that!

whammer33024

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there was a thread on here a while back that said that 95% of the lt1's built don't necessitate buying aftermarket heads and porting your stock ones will be more than enough...for cheaper and just as good, if not better results, lloyd will get my business

luckyou03

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The cnc lt4 edelbrock heads are $1,xxx PER head. So you'd save over $1,300.

thesoundandthefury

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$300 less than the price the OP's friend quoted him.

BlackTTC6

The only reason i'm even considering them is because i can get a brand new pair and intake for 1500.

I kinda want them so we'll see. Will Lloyd's heads make more power? Sure but they're not LT4's bitches.. Haha. I'm such a ricer.

Thank you everyone for the comments.

ZFan88

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yup..

goldmecham

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well when hes running high 13's and cant understand why then he can only blame himself.

mpe331lx

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You can be the guinea pig, lol.

You can either take the chance on possibly having poor performance, or go with a proven combo from Advanced Induction or Lloyd. (If it was my choice I would go with Advanced Induction)

luckyou03

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my bad

leadfoot4

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If I were you, I'd certainly consider them, especially at that price. It appears that many people are looking at the Edelbrock pieces individually, and it's true, they don't provide a massive HP increase. They were designed to work as a unit, however, and as such, provide a better overall power increase when ALL the parts are installed.

JS

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We just put a set of (out of the box) Edelbrocks LT4's on a 383 with a port matched and cleaned up Victor E intake,58TB and 90 degree Plenum along with a small XFI 230's-580's threw LT's,Magna CB...

This was threw a PI 3400 5-DISC/4.10 12-Bolt..
Car feels awesome

Results were SAE CORRECTED 429RWHP/434RWTQ...

Tony Shepherd

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I applaud Edelbrock for attempting and still making parts for LT1's. However, I think their R&D sucks. If they are going to make a product it needs to out-perform stock parts. Lets take the newest air-gap intake for example.....why in the world would they lower the plenum volume on it compared to stock? Guys that have larger cube high reving motors can't use it because it will not be able to fill the runners fast enough. It is cool they are still making parts for us but is not cool that the products do not perform! Wake the hell up Edelbrock!

As far as the topic in this thread, I think you can get more results for cheaper with LE or AI.......etc.