View Poll Results: what heads should i go with?

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Mar 30, 2007 | 07:55 AM

#81

brad8266

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I think you have to give Jeff his dues, I don't know of ANY individual that bolted the stuff on in his garage, tuned it himself and made almost 500 RWHP. I think all of the other "over 500 RWHP" combo's were shop cars.

I did my setup in the garage myself and made 451 untuned running in the 11-10 AFR range the whole time. A set of TFS heads, tuning,cutout, EWP and my FAST sent out for porting may get me close. Im using your stage 3 5.3's right now. That would be badass if I could hit 500HP on my self built/tuned car with my baby cam thats in there right now.

Mar 30, 2007 | 07:58 AM

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I have AFR's but right now nothing is touching TFS's power out put. If AFR made a head like TFS's then we would really be talking, But as of right now they don't. AFR's heads can pass smog tests too.
But as Ron stated above nothing is touching them right now.

THeres not really a comparison between the AFR and TFS heads. TFS has a different valve angle nad slightly larger valve. Give AFR the same to work with and then make a comparison. The valve angle changes a lot.

TFS claims the heads cant be picked up. Ive witnessed one change that picked up 18cfm

Mar 30, 2007 | 08:33 AM

#83

Brian Tooley Racing

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Yeah, after the head was hurt 20cfm

Mar 30, 2007 | 04:44 PM

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here my graph with tea heads and a 232/236 580 580 112 cam. this is through 3:90s and a ls6 intake. the car ran an 11.7 @ 119 in 4130 DA.

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Mar 30, 2007 | 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by algws6

here my graph with tea heads and a 232/236 580 580 112 cam. this is through 3:90s and a ls6 intake. the car ran an 11.7 @ 119 in 4130 DA.

Nice very similiar to my 232/236 with TEA heads. 451/414

Mar 31, 2007 | 09:52 AM

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Yeah, after the head was hurt 20cfm

No Brian...Dead serious here...You talk to the man on a weekly basis. The other guy is the one that did the development of them as well. They are badass heads for sure. I know where id spend my money.

Mar 31, 2007 | 03:38 PM

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IMO the TEA TF head is untouchable.

Mar 31, 2007 | 06:56 PM

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I love my TEA Stage III Judson Series, very nice.

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Mar 31, 2007 | 10:11 PM

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Bigchickenhawk

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it's TEA for me no question here....great product at a great price

Apr 1, 2007 | 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Bigchickenhawk

it's TEA for me no question here....great product at a great price

I wonder why you would say that.

Apr 1, 2007 | 09:25 AM

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rickssz

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Boy this reminds me of the weld vs bogart debate. Very similar, both work. Bogart works better. Weld is alot cheaper.

Apr 1, 2007 | 09:41 AM

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shouldn't this thread be moved to ls1/6 internal?? This has nothing too do with dyno results and comparisons??? Comon mods move it.

Apr 25, 2007 | 02:54 AM

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The last heads I got from TEA were stg. 2.5 LS6s that made 492rwhp/423rwtq when mated with an Ed Curtis custom hydraulic cam that I had him make to match the heads.

Oh, and this was well over 2 years ago

Jul 5, 2007 | 03:11 PM

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QFT

Jul 5, 2007 | 08:03 PM

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would anyone else like to see TEA vs. TSP pinks style?

Jul 5, 2007 | 08:27 PM

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Tsp, great quality and performance.

Jul 8, 2007 | 06:52 PM

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Vengeance sourced the LS6 heads that are on my car from TEA. Truly amazing product. I know a lot had to do with the camshaft selection and tuning but the heads fit nicely into their H/C/I package.

I just picked up a big tire 82 Firebird with a built bottom end 406. Who did I call for a top end package for this car? No question in my mind. I called Vengeance who referred me directly to TEA. TEA does much more than just LS1 related products. They have knowledge in many other engines as well.

TEA all the way for me on this one.

Nov 21, 2007 | 05:58 AM

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james562

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How about both TEA and TSP have a "War of the Cylinder Heads" sale?

By discounting all heads by 100-200$ off normal price I would gladly pick up a set off of either of the two companies at hand

And I would GLADLY ***** out my rear hatch window with a giant "your shop here" As I click off a 10 sec NA pass with your heads for free shipping

Cmonn we need a price war all of Ls1tech can benefit from!!!

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