My home inspection of Speedmaster heads

And I thought the point of buying these was to not spend as much as, or very close to, what you’d have into a set of TF’s.

The throat diameter is 1.890, which is 93% of the 2.02 valve.
Way too big for the lift range most everyone using these will be running.

They cut right up to the 45 on the vj.

Maybe PBR can measure the throat of the unported head.
My guess is, it’s bigger than it should be as well.
They want the porting to be “pretty”, with a minimum of drop outs...... Imo they’re porting below the seats for appearance...... not for flow.

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In order to have the throat percentage to be more in line with the valve diameter and lifts most will run with these heads you’d need to run a 2.08 valve.
Then you start to run into valve shrouding issues....... more $$$ to fix.


I will try to
Measure that today. As far as valve shrouding I tested that on my flowbench and was kinda surprised at the results myself. My bore fixture measures 4.010 and using a 2.08 valve maxed out slightly of 315cfm. My fixture is drilled and the head is mounted with a head gasket and four studs so it’s not shifted away from the bore fixture like some guys do with C-clamps. I’m thinking most guys go 4.030 on their blocks. I know I do.