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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 08:55 AM
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Anyone tried Darts new LS1 head yet?
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 09:09 AM
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Not to many results that i have seen but every head porter that gets them seems to love them. In the coming weeks, a freind of mine will have his on and running after porting . I will let it out what it makes after he races a few locals.

Before that it will be hush hush.
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Old Jan 22, 2006 | 10:25 AM
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I have them but they are not installed yet. Still waiting on my Morel lifters, which are due in mid to late February. I did take the heads apart and just smoothed out the ports and hand sanded and polished the chambers so as not to increase the chamber volume. The heads seem to be well constructed, use quality parts and I think are going to provide some great results. There was one dyno on the head over on CF that was done after some minor port cleanup with sanding rolls, not real hogging out of the ports. Gain was 50 HP, so I think the out of box potential or with some minor sanding like I have done will still provide a good gain. I have been corresponding with a couple of guys who fortunately for them live in warmer climates (although we have been having some bizarre weather for January as far as temperature is concerned) and they will be installing in the next couple of weeks.

PS: One of the supporting vendors recently matched the prices that Summit has on these heads in the supporting vendor sales section.
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