Dad was a victim of the hype like so many of us are........"Oooooh, a new iron race head for the Chrysler!......We're all saved now!" I think he never spent the time on the 452 that he could have.
Long time ago Cody and I found a set of Stage IV in a garage where a man was getting rid of some Mopar stuff his son had collected, Cody remarked on their similarity to the 452 and set them back down on the shelf. I never bought any Stage IV heads for Cody like I did with the Stage V. I don't think any IV's were available when I bought the V's. What he may have been able to do with those IV's I guess we'll never know. He freakin' hates workin' on iron now.
When we started, we had a bunch of old heads that Dad had experimented on. As we developed our heads, we began to notice a big drift away from the direction the Dad had been going in port design. Cody began to exceed the air flows Pop was getting on the higher lifts and I started experimenting on seat angles and throat design that were getting better flow than Pop's, and we combined the two. The toughest obstacle we had to overcome was getting the mid-range up between the other two.
