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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 07:03 PM
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Got your attention huh. Anyways I just bought a set of used stg3 ls6 style heads(patriot) and I hear is over exagerrating. Well I'm sure that TFS heads flow a lil more, but people are using them on stock cubes and making very good #'s. I'm deciding to with the vengeance cam or a G5x4(vegeance right now has the edge) but is this too much with this choice of cam.
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 07:06 PM
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Those heads arent too much, they will work just fine.
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 07:09 PM
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Great thread title.

Um you are gona be leaving a little torque on the table with those heads, but you will pick up some good top end.
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 07:12 PM
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I don't think it would matter that much on the low, since I have a 4k stall. Right?
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as for the title there is no such thing as too much head. lol
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as for the title there is no such thing as too much head. lol
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 07:27 PM
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Check out page 4 post 61 by Mamo. I think he explains it really well right here in this post.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...highlight=mamo

So yes I think it is possible to overhead a 346 but it depends where you want to make your power. Im no expert on this but my guess would be with a larger flowing head you would see slower port velocities until you reached higher RPM which would kill you low end torque.
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Old Apr 11, 2007 | 07:39 PM
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Thanks man. That was good reading.
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Check out page 4 post 61 by Mamo. I think he explains it really well right here in this post.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...highlight=mamo

So yes I think it is possible to overhead a 346 but it depends where you want to make your power. Im no expert on this but my guess would be with a larger flowing head you would see slower port velocities until you reached higher RPM which would kill you low end torque.
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