Edelbrock Heads?????????
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Staging Lane
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Edelbrock Heads????????? Looking At Maybe Buying A Set Of These Heads For A Lt1 Rebuild That I'm In The Process Of Doing Are Thay Any Good.i Know I Can Get My Stock Ones Ported To Make Lots Of Power But A Good Port Job Isnt Cheap .my Question Is Are These Heads Any Good.
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They add 24 hp over stock and raise where the torque is being made. I would say put em on your stock like Camaro if u want better heads. If you want heads that just flow amazing though and are going to make the most power u need AFRs or at leaste ported stockers. These heads are just good for a nice bolt on street 750 idle machine.
Your money would be better spent on a ported set of LT1 heads. Edlebrock heads just aren't worth it because when ported they're no better than a ported LT1 casting, and unported they're BARELY better than a stock casting. Edlebrocks claims on their heads have been proved to be generous at best.
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Staging Lane
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because when you send out your stock heads to get ported you then need a valve job,then maybe some guides are gone and before you know it you spent 1500 on your stock heads.which i know will make good power but the question was are these heads any good.if you guys dont like edelbrock heads what about a set of trick flows???
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LE1 come back to you ready to bolt on. Just check out his site www.eportsworks.com under product and you'll get a better idea of what he has to offer.
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Aren't Trickflow's made for boost applications?
If you're looking for just bolt-on heads for street driving without having any downtime [having stock heads ported], then they are worth it. If you want to make serious power for the track, then get the stockers ported.
If you're looking for just bolt-on heads for street driving without having any downtime [having stock heads ported], then they are worth it. If you want to make serious power for the track, then get the stockers ported.
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sorry for hijacking your thread man, but what about AFR's?
i had a good debate with a freind today where he was like, go with afr's insted of sending the sockers all the way to the states for porting (eports.com).
i had a good debate with a freind today where he was like, go with afr's insted of sending the sockers all the way to the states for porting (eports.com).
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People are wising up to AFR's inability to truely perform unless heavily reworked. When everyone had a gen1 with crappy factory heads AFR was a great alternative, when the OEMs stepped things up bigtime with the LT1 AFR did not keep pace.
There is a long recent thread on the Edelbrock heads where an Edelbrock employee admits the heads get some slight grinder work and end up flowing 16cfm more than stock and their heads and cam package with 1.75" headers make LESS than 400 FLYWHEEL hp where AI or LE can get you that at the rear wheels with stock castings. Do a search read that thread if the Edelbrock employees own info posted does not show you what a joke they are you are being blinded by the name and not being objective enough.
Edelbrock is another company struggling to make worthwhile latemodel products since OEMs are leaving much less room for improvement these days.
There is a long recent thread on the Edelbrock heads where an Edelbrock employee admits the heads get some slight grinder work and end up flowing 16cfm more than stock and their heads and cam package with 1.75" headers make LESS than 400 FLYWHEEL hp where AI or LE can get you that at the rear wheels with stock castings. Do a search read that thread if the Edelbrock employees own info posted does not show you what a joke they are you are being blinded by the name and not being objective enough.
Edelbrock is another company struggling to make worthwhile latemodel products since OEMs are leaving much less room for improvement these days.
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LE is the way to go or ET performance. Those Edelbrocks are a poor excuse for an aftermarket head. Save the money and send your stockers off to LE or ET. I got ET's and cannot wait till my black death is up and running to report to all. But man just quit thinking about edelbrocks. Edelbrock is way behind the times as far as late model stuff goes.
Thank god we talked some sense into one person at least.
93LT1 is a little simple and even when an Edelbrock employee gives him all the info he needs to see they were a joke he just laps it all up like it is the greatest thing ever.
93LT1 is a little simple and even when an Edelbrock employee gives him all the info he needs to see they were a joke he just laps it all up like it is the greatest thing ever.
The Trickflows are good heads but per their own description are better left to strokers or boost. If building a 353-355 you could also select pistons with their large combustion chamber in mind.
Stock aluminum LT1 heads are roughly 58cc these are 64cc which is about what the LT1 irons are, the irons use a .029 gasket just to get 10:1 where the aluminums with the 58cc use a .049. Basically what I am saying is that even with the thinnest available gasket you will barely top 10:1 and being aluminum you need more compression, plus most popular cam can benifit from more than the stock aluminum head 10.4 compression. That would be a heck of a lot of milling to get compression back up without going into the bottomend, that milling would be enough to require intake milling and could potentially even hurt the flow of the heads(good thread on this in camaroz28.com advanced tech section right now).
Basically the Trickflows are good but not for a stock bottom, yes they can work but you would be missing a lot of the potential.
Stock aluminum LT1 heads are roughly 58cc these are 64cc which is about what the LT1 irons are, the irons use a .029 gasket just to get 10:1 where the aluminums with the 58cc use a .049. Basically what I am saying is that even with the thinnest available gasket you will barely top 10:1 and being aluminum you need more compression, plus most popular cam can benifit from more than the stock aluminum head 10.4 compression. That would be a heck of a lot of milling to get compression back up without going into the bottomend, that milling would be enough to require intake milling and could potentially even hurt the flow of the heads(good thread on this in camaroz28.com advanced tech section right now).
Basically the Trickflows are good but not for a stock bottom, yes they can work but you would be missing a lot of the potential.