360 stroker questions

Early stock heads like a X or J head or older W2’s.
For power, if you have the coin, go W2.
The stock heads, as cast, do not support much power even on stock displacements. Porting a stock head quickly escalates in money to aluminum head money.
You could still do very well with a stock head. Though it’s choking the engine @ 400+ cubes.

Well, so much for that plan. The only stock heads I'd run on a stroker would be Magnums.