Angle Milling

It sure did work. My older friend used to run a 67 Camaro with a 283 in it. Dual quad tunnel ram and a set of angle milled heads. He is a crack machinist and did all the right stuff to make everything fit just perfect. Anyhow, this thing was making 600HP, N/A some 40 years ago. They were untouchable in his ring of racing for over 20 years with that car. He always claimed it was the milling and port work, and the 8500+rpm top end LOL

those chevy guys sure like to rev the piss out of them huh! i have a friend with a de-stroked 327 and i watched it drop off 10 grand tachs... thanks for the info

People have been racing with this (LA) engine for 50 years. If there was enough to be gained by doing this to offset the expense, it would be common practice. Sometimes when something isn't a popular modification, it's because there is no reason to do it.

well lets look at that, how many people are willing to really look for gains for the amount of work that would take? i mean if you were serious for 2 degree's, say .260" (just a number) the work to get all the holes to line up properly, etc etc etc. i would be curious if eliminator motors are angle milled (if legal)

FWIW I believe the reason it's not needed on an LA Mopar is that the valves already open "on center". That is, the centerline of the valves is the centerline of the bore, so they are at the widest point. The small Chevy (production) heads have the valves offset from the bore center. Angle milling moves them closer to bore center which provides some unshrouding benefit. Then again, I might be full of sh*t.

Now this is make sense. I can see where the gains would be more on the chevy. But there are still the benefits of valve and port angle.

And here I was just thinking that angle milling the / head might be a way to give it a better squish zone.

well its certainly a way to gain that. For my purpose it would be to gain pushrod clearance, improve chamber shape, and improve port/valve angle. I just like to know options before i move on things.