^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this 100%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

I agree with you. Our hobby isn't cheap. Hell, I spent almost $3,000 on an early set of AFR CNC'd 225 heads back when Tony was still at AFR. Fully assembled with upgraded Ferrea valves and 921 Comp dual valvesprings. $3,000 in 2005 (when I bought them) is a Helluva lot more than $3,000 now. I wasn't rich then, and I'm sure not now. If those BTR heads are between $3,500-$4,000, I think they'll sell a lot of them. At least, I hope they do.....

 

I feel 2g-3g would be super reasonable and I would jump on them. Above 3g I'd probably hesitate and see what valves, springs, flow numbers, etc are to compare to others in that price range. I can't see myself spending over 4g on a set of heads since I'm running a smaller cubic inch boosted combo. The bang for the buck isn't there for me to spend over 4g. If I was NA or nitrous then I'd be willing to spend a lot more on heads. I had a set of AFR 225's back in 2005 or 2006 on a 408, but I can't remember what I paid for them back then.

I think they are in a tough position since they seemed to be trying to bring a high quality usa casting head to the market at a price point much lower than others. After hearing their issues and how many $$$ they are into this thing it's a tough position to find a price point that makes sense for them.

 

interesting. I guess time will tell for pricing and more time will tell for sales. I am not expert on ls engines but dont many used ls engines go for less than 3500-4000? Can you still get new ls engines and what do they go for?

 

have you heard any rumors on pricing?

 

There are no new LS engines being built. There are a few stragglers out there in inventory but when they are gone, they are gone.
I haven’t heard anything about pricing. It will have to be competitive obviously with current equivalent flowing heads…canted valve or not. One can always grab a pull off set of LT heads and have a set of canted valve heads, but that’s not going to be much…if any…of an upgrade at all. Brian is designing and engineering canted valve heads for the LS platform from scratch with some of the smartest minds in cylinder head technology. It’s the biggest and most expensive endeavor any private shop owner can entail. He doesn’t have the bank account that GM does by any stretch…they have sunk over a billion into the new Gen6 platform coming up for instance.

 

Why can't BTR produce these as finished as cast heads and then if someone wants them ported that can be offered by other companies?

 

Thats how I would do it if I were in Bryan’s shoes. Offering a porters casting in my eyes, leaves too much room for discrepancies in final numbers, from shop to shop. If anyone knows final port design, it’s Bryan. His port work back in the day was excellant. IDK…let’s wait and see how this all pans out first.

 

I could see offering both an as cast version and a cnc ported version. You are 100% correct though with Bryans background and skill with port work being what got him to where he is today, I definitely want to see what these can do with him being 100% involved from the beginning casting design to the finished cnc porting. I think him not offering these with a cnc program based upon his hand porting would be a crime.