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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 10:58 AM
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Question Afr heads

I'm getting some for my LS1.

Your thoughts or advise.


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Old Apr 22, 2009 | 08:03 PM
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What type of information are you looking for?
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Old Apr 23, 2009 | 03:39 AM
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Awesome Bruce!

I've got them and love them... they are some top notch heads... one of the best mods you could have bought...
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Old Apr 23, 2009 | 06:44 AM
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Good choice, are you gettings 205's or 225's? I would recommend milling them down a little bit to bump up your compression. The 205's come w/ 66cc chambers stock which is a hair lower than stock compression while you can get almost 11:1 with a 62cc chamber by milling them 0.024".
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Old Apr 23, 2009 | 07:11 AM
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ask 100 people and you will get 30% that say buy them, 30% that say buy TFS, and 30% that say buy another head....my .02 buy tfs 215...they outflow afr and do not give up any low end torque...
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Old Apr 23, 2009 | 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by 9secondsflat
ask 100 people and you will get 30% that say buy them, 30% that say buy TFS, and 30% that say buy another head....my .02 buy tfs 215...they outflow afr and do not give up any low end torque...
I'm biased to the AFR heads:
https://ls1tech.com/forums/dynamomet...5-comparo.html
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Old Apr 23, 2009 | 01:10 PM
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i have a set of mamo ported 205s that i ran on my LS2, and then threw them on my 402 when it got built.
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Old Apr 23, 2009 | 06:53 PM
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Great choice, but get them milled to 62cc. for more compression? This is what I am doin.
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