AFR heads
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Staging Lane
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AFR heads Anyone had any experience with these heads there going on a stock bottom end lt1 heres the link http://www.airflowresearch.com/store...oducts_id=3353
Anyone had any experience with these heads there going on a stock bottom end lt1 heres the link http://www.airflowresearch.com/store...oducts_id=3353
Personally on the stock bottom end I would run ported stockers, or maybe as cast darts. TFS heads kill CR too much on the stock shortblock and AFRs leave a bit to be desired as cast.
I have the older AFR190's and they flow really good out of the box, however if you're gonna spend 1800 on 180's from AFR I'd go ahead and have LE port your stockers out for less and his will out flow those AFR's all day long.
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From: Kempner, TX
My take is, don't let flow numbers give you an orgasm. Flow numbers are just that numbers. Numbers on a piece of paper.
The important issue is whether those numbers actually translate into improved/superior performance AND, if so, does that improved/superior performance justify the additional cost.
Many love to brag bout how many HP their engine makes at some screamingly high RPM, yet fail to temper that with comments on just how rarely the engine is ever up that high.
Take, for example, a 7000 rpm street engine that rumbles around town and is shown off every chance the owner has to pop the hood. Yet this same engine rarely gets above 3000 rpms in street driving.
What a waste; psychology has a name for such behavior. This isn't just my view either. The cam gurus at CompCams, Lunati and Crance have even commented on it; how so few actually have a plan when selecting parts.
But, HEY! he can brag, right? DUH!
Jake
West Point ROCKS!
The important issue is whether those numbers actually translate into improved/superior performance AND, if so, does that improved/superior performance justify the additional cost.
Many love to brag bout how many HP their engine makes at some screamingly high RPM, yet fail to temper that with comments on just how rarely the engine is ever up that high.
Take, for example, a 7000 rpm street engine that rumbles around town and is shown off every chance the owner has to pop the hood. Yet this same engine rarely gets above 3000 rpms in street driving.
What a waste; psychology has a name for such behavior. This isn't just my view either. The cam gurus at CompCams, Lunati and Crance have even commented on it; how so few actually have a plan when selecting parts.
But, HEY! he can brag, right? DUH!
Jake
West Point ROCKS!
Anyone had any experience with these heads there going on a stock bottom end lt1 heres the link http://www.airflowresearch.com/store...oducts_id=3353
