for quality, performance and the piece of mind factor which company sales the best budget heads?

 

Patriot heads i would say are the best for the the price.

 

Im going with the livernois.

 

i plan on going patriot some stage 2 243 heads and a TR224 cam should yield me over 400whp

 

what about gm heads

 

Unless you plan on having the Patriots ported, I would not get them

 

[QUOTE=krobinson123;8830677]Unless you plan on having the Patriots ported, I would not get them[/QUOT

i see your using ls6 patriot heads, these are the heads i'm planning to get or tea 5.3's. how are they working for you? any dyno #'s

 

i like my PRC 5.3l stage 2.5's. great heads and up compression a good little bit.

 

pretty tough to beat patriot and some PRC heads for the price.

 

just looked at prc heads and they look pretty good. i especially like the 5.3 stg.2 heads. they look fitted with good quality hardware and have great lift #'s for the price. i'm starting to get into the 5.3 heads, before i was into the ls6 heads, but i don't like the idea of the larger runners that they have and it seems that there to big for a little 346ci when running a 224/224 cam. the 5.3 have smaller runners that will give me better lower/mid range power than ls6 heads, and they bump up the compression of my car. looks like a good head.

 

Id go with TEA, very good head for the price. I picked up 50rwhp on my set up with just the heads.

 

that's damn good #'s. i was looking at there 5.3 stg 1.5

 

I have heard nothing but great things about tsp stage 2 5.3 heads

 

WCCH has some very nice heads also. They too are a sponsor

 

who's that?

 

I had great luck with a set of used Patriots 5.3s

 

patriot uses 243 castings, what does prc and TEA use? and if they do use another casting whats the difference and benefits between the others.

 

if you get ported ls6 heads they are all gonna be 243's no matter who ports them. 5.3 heads will either be a 862 or 706 casting

 

I had stage 1 Livernois heads with a 224/228 114 cam and made 420 RWHP / 390 RWTQ.

-Rick

 

I know a guy with the PRC 5.3L heads and they are awesome...around here, Ive heard nothing but bad things about Patriot heads though