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Hey David I know you had really good results with the TFS heads, but how well do you think of these heads http://texas-speed.com/p-1172-prc-st...ted-heads.aspx with a 58 cc combustion chamber would work on our car.
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Hey David I know you had really good results with the TFS heads, but how well do you think of these heads http://texas-speed.com/p-1172-prc-st...ted-heads.aspx with a 58 cc combustion chamber would work on our car.
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The heads have a combustion chamber Vol. of 61-62 cc's and the intake ports are 200cc. The Intake valve is 1.89" With a 60cc chamber the new compression ratio will be 10.5:1
Once you find some heads, I would send them off to advanced Inductions for some CNC porting, and milling (.014" = new combustion chamber of 59-60cc). 1200 Max. They would make a torque monster. Leave the small valves alone!!
Stab in a 2000 Corvette LS1 cam with some 1.8 roller rockers. Scrap the DOD
P/N 12560968
198/209@ .050 .500/.500 lift and 115.5 L/S
You would be at .530/.530 lift with 1.8 rockers so have AI concentrate on low to mid flow numbers before machining.
This combo, with your LS1 intake, should cost less then 2000 and will make tons of torque with a shift points around 6000rpm. 2.93 gears in a heavy car needs lots of bottom end power!
http://www.advancedinduction.com/LSX...rHeads.php#243
gene@gmpartshouse.com for the camshaft
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The heads above are actually 862/706 cores that are ported. I emailed Texas speed to see if they could leave 2.00 valves in them instead of 2.02". For the cam I would most likely get one spec'd, and if I go H/C I would do the ls6 intake. I am just trying to piece together a shopping list because as of December I will be a full time engineer(no more being an intern, school will finally be done after this semester) and I should have some extra cash. Also a TEP trans would be in the near future with any of the above mods, so I would be upgrading gears as well. Thanks again for the info on the valves.
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The heads above are actually 862/706 cores that are ported. I emailed Texas speed to see if they could leave 2.00 valves in them instead of 2.02". For the cam I would most likely get one spec'd, and if I go H/C I would do the ls6 intake. I am just trying to piece together a shopping list because as of December I will be a full time engineer(no more being an intern, school will finally be done after this semester) and I should have some extra cash. Also a TEP trans would be in the near future with any of the above mods, so I would be upgrading gears as well. Thanks again for the info on the valves.
Sittingmongoose used the PRC 2.5 heads and made 330hp
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Yeah using used valves in 1300 heads does not work well with me. Didn't sitting mongoose run ported 243's though? I am pretty sure the 243 heads just aren't a good combination on our cars. Thats why i was looking at the 5.3 heads as they have simliar flow numbers, but offer a smaller runner. plus the should give a nice bump in compression. Guess I have awhile to think this over. I would not be happy with 330 whp after H/C/I.
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Well comparing the flow numbers of the PRC's and AI's 5.3 heads. The AI's are a much better head, however the AI's run about 1900 for there heads with dual springs. That is basically what the TFS heads cost. Do you think the springs in the tfs head are of pretty good quality. I think they were rated at .625 max lift.
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Well comparing the flow numbers of the PRC's and AI's 5.3 heads. The AI's are a much better head, however the AI's run about 1900 for there heads with dual springs. That is basically what the TFS heads cost. Do you think the springs in the tfs head are of pretty good quality. I think they were rated at .625 max lift.
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I picked up 30-35whp with the head swap, and a lot more torque. I used to shift at 6800 and now I only make power up to 6500. I have not gotten a new tune yet. I have also spoken with a few of the TFS techs, and they are some of the nicest people I have ever delt with. They told me to call back once I get tuned.
I sold my 243's to offset the cost of the TFS 205cc Gen X heads. The heads use Iron guides, so you can re-use the stock rocker arms. 7.500 pushrods are required due to the 13.5* valve angles. I am using 7.425's with my cam and LS7 lifters. Dead quite! Zzzz....
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Yeah i was looking at the 5.3 heads for the torque and not needing to spin over 6500 rpm, and it seemed everyone using ported 243s werent having very good luck. Yeah I figured I could sell the 243's for 500-600 to recoupe(put elsewhere lol). Are you waiting to do the 90 mm inlet/TB before you retune, and if so you should do it during some nice cool weather because I want to see your car put down 400 whp n/a. It should have it in otherwise someone's going to need to find out how to get a fast on these cars to break that 400 whp barrier.
Oh and do you have the flow numbers of the TFS heads I can't seem to find them on any website.
Oh and do you have the flow numbers of the TFS heads I can't seem to find them on any website.