Trick Flow SBM Heads

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definately not Victors. Those have approached 1000 horsepower on a couple of builds.
Guy looking at my stuff right now made 773 with them on a stock stroke 360 with a 255@50 camshaft. He said with bigger cam he could get over 800 falling off a log even without using a stroker crank
That’s awesome. I’ve never seen someone actually use them so I wasn’t sure how they did. LOL
 
People definitely expected way too much from the tf’s. But I am totally happy with how they performed they have surprised the hell out of me, I did not expect to get low 11s in our crap air. They’ll never really match up to a well done set of w series heads or maybe even victors.


The Trickflow Head was designed and developed 100% towards the street, street strip guys. Stay tuned for future developments.
 
think they are going to come out with a 220 type head?


They are so secretive it’s hard to tell. They have talked to Harlan Sharp from what I’ve been told and I’m hoping some changes come from that discussion. I would like to see more rocker offset.
 
Loaded question. It's everything that will surround the heads which will reward you the money spent.... You would have to spill your beans as to the setup, be ready for feedback, and bust out the wallet. It's the only head at this point that will most likely get you something to bolt on OOTB but even then there is still no guarantee.....

JW
I think @1971 CY Dodge Dart meant to just take some X heads off and put the trick flows on. I totally agree that there are a lot of other factors. So how about this. If I took my mildly modified 340 with a Comp Cams XE268 cam kit, headers, Edelbrock Air Gap and 750 CFM Edelbrock cab that is right at 375 HP and put those heads on it, what would be the approximate HP pickup. If it was 5-10 HP, I would not buy them. Has anybody done a test where they took an engine like mine and ran 3 dyno tests? One as is, one with Edelbrock heads OOTB and one with Trick Flows OOTB. That would be interesting.
 
I have an Australian Valiant Charger Trick Flow heads on and with 410 and had edelbrock home ported heads on it. Car has run 11.4 @ 120 mph. I have just finished putting Trick Flow heads on it and putting a slightly bigger cam ( 234/237 and 530 lift.verses 237/243 and 610 lift) also upping comp slightly to 11.0 to one. Car made 294 RWHP on dyno and will be putting back on dyno for a HP figure and then a qtr run. Will post back when I have the details but seat of the pants dyno says a fair bit more power!
 
I think @1971 CY Dodge Dart meant to just take some X heads off and put the trick flows on. I totally agree that there are a lot of other factors. So how about this. If I took my mildly modified 340 with a Comp Cams XE268 cam kit, headers, Edelbrock Air Gap and 750 CFM Edelbrock cab that is right at 375 HP and put those heads on it, what would be the approximate HP pickup. If it was 5-10 HP, I would not buy them. Has anybody done a test where they took an engine like mine and ran 3 dyno tests? One as is, one with Edelbrock heads OOTB and one with Trick Flows OOTB. That would be interesting.

If the X heads were stock they prob flowed 225cfm max@.500" being generous..so with your XE268 (COMP Cams Xtreme Energy Camshafts 20-223-3) you'd be lucky to get 220 if that less the Eddy Air Gap restriction but lets say 220cfm. So you go and bolt on some TF190's, they flow approx 3cfm per .010 thou of lift quoted from TF's figures from .400>.500", so@.477"= approx 22cfm gain from .400>.477 so its 270cfm (1.7/8" pipe) which = a 50cfm gain at your max lift over the X's. You can now theorize how much +hp that will make with that bottom end combo and tune. An Eddy heads flow ootb is not much better than a good stock head.
 
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I don't have any intention of replacing my stock x heads with an aftermarket aluminum head unless I had to tear down my motor. My motor has just a few hundred miles on it so knock on wood I hope it lasts for awhile. My question was just a random one out of curiosity.

Years ago I had a Mustang II with a 302 and no factory head could compare in comparison to a good aftermarket aluminum head.
 
I just got my engine back from B3, has Trick Flow heads. Now I have to finish the car for it
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Is that the 12 to 1 or so compression solid roller engine Mike was building a while back?, was excited to see what hp it was going to make.
Yes, that is the one. Do you want to tell them, Pat, or should I?
 
Don't tell! I'm afraid !
The beans may have covid.
Only tell if you have your mask on.
Biden won't like it.
Blow us away - Please.
 
Absolutely agree, and I'm sure the headers made some difference but the low lift numbers on the intake of the cnc speedmaster really stood out to me. If I guy can port he can have ootb trickflow performance for a few hundred less after upgrading springs but I had enough of porting and spent the few hundred on the tf heads, took them apart, cleaned them, shimmed a few springs, put them together and ran them lol. I do think allot of people expected too much "magic" from a 190 port 2K set of mopar heads,although they do look the part of "full race" heads.
Aren't those trickflows basically untested?...:D...
 
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