old school heads
08-08-2011, 08:46 AM
#21
You can buy a set of upgraded vortecs that can hold .550 lift for $500.00. Thats new springs already in that price. If the OP is into the nostalgia thing then get the fuelie heads, if not I say get the vortecs for the cheapie budget.
08-21-2011, 01:01 PM
#27
Depends on how budget he wants to go. If he gets the fuelie heads he would have to get them checked out so that costs money on top of the price of buying them. Then what if they need work? With today's cams more than likely they will need a spring change regardless.
You can buy a set of upgraded vortecs that can hold .550 lift for $500.00. Thats new springs already in that price. If the OP is into the nostalgia thing then get the fuelie heads, if not I say get the vortecs for the cheapie budget.
You can buy a set of upgraded vortecs that can hold .550 lift for $500.00. Thats new springs already in that price. If the OP is into the nostalgia thing then get the fuelie heads, if not I say get the vortecs for the cheapie budget.
OP are you rebuilding the entire engine or just doing heads/cam?
08-21-2011, 03:04 PM
#28
The vortec's will damn near run door to door with the Pro Comps.
As far as a checkbook, I will GLADLY write out a bigger check for an American produced head from my checkbook
, but thats me. You do what you want to do.
08-21-2011, 08:24 PM
#29
Performance, cheap and quality don't go in the same sentence when it comes to Pro Comps.
The vortec's will damn near run door to door with the Pro Comps.
As far as a checkbook, I will GLADLY write out a bigger check for an American produced head from my checkbook, but thats me. You do what you want to do.
The vortec's will damn near run door to door with the Pro Comps.
As far as a checkbook, I will GLADLY write out a bigger check for an American produced head from my checkbook
, but thats me. You do what you want to do.
08-25-2011, 08:45 AM
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Those Patriots that you're hot for are the same chinese heads as the Pro Comps that you're against. Patriot does the same thing as the ebay guys... They get bare Pro Comp castings then put their own hardware on them. Only difference is that Patriot gets $200 more for theirs and they have an American-sounding name.
08-25-2011, 01:38 PM
#32
Those Patriots that you're hot for are the same chinese heads as the Pro Comps that you're against. Patriot does the same thing as the ebay guys... They get bare Pro Comp castings then put their own hardware on them. Only difference is that Patriot gets $200 more for theirs and they have an American-sounding name.
Patriot has to be doing something different to their heads because I have seen a set of Pro Comps do poorly compared to other SBC aluminum heads and Patriots run just a little bit behind the same set of heads.
Any proof that Patriot and Pro Comp use the same casting?
Edit: Patriot is casted overseas and finished here in Alabama. They are basically Alabama Cylinder Head. If you go to Alabama Cylinder Head's site and click on performance it links you to Patriot. Pro Comps on the other hand from what I can tell everything is done overseas.
Still doesn't make one better than the other.
Last edited by 87silverbullet; 08-25-2011 at 02:06 PM.
08-26-2011, 01:35 PM
#33
Those Patriots that you're hot for are the same chinese heads as the Pro Comps that you're against. Patriot does the same thing as the ebay guys... They get bare Pro Comp castings then put their own hardware on them. Only difference is that Patriot gets $200 more for theirs and they have an American-sounding name.
