Cylinder head discussion 340 with stock above deck pistons

The original intent was a discussion about heads. My car is not strictly a drag car it's a street car I like to take to the strip. I don't even think most people responding to this are reading the whole thread. Seems like you are just arguing with each other and making assumptions about driving ability. As I stated before it's been down the 1/4 at one event where I made maybe 9 passes. The track we had in town shut down but I raced there for 4 seasons and made 150 or more passes on a 330' track. Even though it's a short track you still get to practice launches. That was before I got radial drag slicks and nitrous. Now I am hoping to get a bit more power out of it. I am aware that I can get my 60' better but rather than starting to high and breaking things and working down to the right launch rpm I am starting low and working my way up. This season is coming up soon and hopefully I'll get to the track 3 or 4 times. I haven't started slipping the clutch on launch yet because I need to raise the rpm more on launch before that will realistically help. At the old 330' track with bfg radials I couldn't launch more than 1800 without spinning the tires badly. So I started there and kept increasing it a little bit at a time, haven't found that upper limit of suspension or tire grip yet. Then I'll start to slip the clutch on launch. I am getting good ideas from reading some of the comments but it seems like a lot of assumptions are being made that could be cleared up if people were reading the whole thread
In your original post (post 1), you said what you had, what it ran, and that you wanted a "bit more out of it" .. "down to the 12's". You were thinking heads, thus your question. These folks are just trying to say you have a bit more to get out of what you already got. IF you work with what you have, you will get to your goal WITHOUT buying heads. But yes, you can get a good aluminum head and it will make more power.