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Old Nov 7, 2010 | 10:34 PM
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How satisfied are you guys with these heads? Looking for the stage 3 LS6 heads for my 408 build. How did you guys do the core exchanges, just send them in bare 243/799 heads and they take care of it from there? I wanted some AFR but still are like $600 more and don't fell like getting rockers for TFS heads. So what's your opinion guys, and I've tried doing a search
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Old Nov 8, 2010 | 06:44 PM
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nobody????
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Cant go wrong. There stage 2 or 2.5 are just as good as most aftermakets. My $1300 heads are going strong for more than 4years without even a spring change.
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Old Nov 8, 2010 | 09:15 PM
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Cant go wrong. There stage 2 or 2.5 are just as good as most aftermakets. My $1300 heads are going strong for more than 4years without even a spring change.
What heads are you running?
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Old Nov 8, 2010 | 09:28 PM
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seem to run real strong, local guy has some TEA LS6 castings on a 404 with a torquer2 cam, throwing down 470rwhp and 11.1 with more left in it.
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Old Nov 8, 2010 | 09:36 PM
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1.5 5.3 heads on a stock cube ls1,full weight car has been 11.09 @123.Great product.
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Old Nov 8, 2010 | 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by streetlegalls1
1.5 5.3 heads on a stock cube ls1,full weight car has been 11.09 @123.Great product.
What are yours milled to? And what cam are you running? Flycut pistons at all?
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Old Nov 9, 2010 | 07:14 AM
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Anyone else?
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I have been running a set of TEA 5.3 stage 1.5 heads for the last 90,000 miles..they are milled down to a 59 cc chamber and I run Cometic .040 head gaskets for a nice tight quench...engine is a LS1 puting down 452/418..great set of heads (flow 316 cu ft @ .600 lift) at a bargan price compared to some other high dollar heads that put down the same flow bench numbers.
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Been very satisfied with my LS6 2.5 TEA heads https://ls1tech.com/forums/dynamomet...acing-cam.html
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The article in the latest Hot Rod magizine of a 408 with a Fast intake and 239/247 114+2 cam using the TEA ported LS6 heads and several popular aftermarket heads.

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Originally Posted by Brian Tooley
The article in the latest Hot Rod magizine of a 408 with a Fast intake and 239/247 114+2 cam using the TEA ported LS6 heads and several popular aftermarket heads.


damn, that is impressive Brian..
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Old Nov 10, 2010 | 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by rcoers
What are yours milled to? And what cam are you running? Flycut pistons at all?
Milled to 60cc,has diamond pistons,2cc valve reliefs,futral f13 on 114,still should clear stock pistons with this cam
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Old Nov 10, 2010 | 11:48 PM
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nice.

that "Dollar/HP" column is where it's at for most of us.
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Man there sure are some happy owners of the TEA heads.

So you just send in a bare set of 243/799 heads to TEA and they build/port them to what stage you want? I'm looking at either the ls6 2.5 or 3 for my 408, hmmm....
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 10:30 AM
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Friend had them do a set of stage 1 243s. The final flow numbers exceeded what they advertise on their website, throughout the lift range. Whatever they did to tweak their exhaust profile worked. The exhaust flow numbers were incredible. Not installed yet, so no dyno numbers.
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