Why am I drawn to the aluminum??

Well, been there, done that.

I was inspired by the same Junkyard Jewel article when I built my Magnum.

I *bought* the Eddie Magnum aluminum heads for my project, even installed them. then I saw some pretty convincing flow numbers in a couple of places on the EQ heads, and sold the eddy heads without ever running them and bought a set of EQ Iron Ram heads from Hughes. The cheapie 1.9 valve sub $1K heads. Very happy that I did.

My car made over 330 rwhp with the Iron Ram heads, which is more than the Junkyard Jewel made, and I had less camshaft and less carburetor, plus I had an 80K junkyard short block rather than a "lying around" crate engine. I was super worried about weight transfer with the iron heads vs. aluminum, but my car ran low 1.50/high 1.40 60' times.

FWIW, My magnum had the pistons .050 in the hole. I used the Mr gasket .028 gaskets to bring the compression up a bit, and the Iron Rams are true 58cc vs. 62 for the RHS heads.

My car ran 11s with a 670 street avenger carb on it.

If it were me, I'd have Brian do you a set of the EQ heads....

Just saying....

Steve