AFR Heads

ValiantRacing said

Unless you are a Chrysler guy. Than anything over 7k is uber high rpm and beyond the scope of even a strip/street car.


I go 7500 at the stripe and do not think its a big deal, i was going 8k, but the cam and maybe heads i have are to small, and i was turning more rpm and not going anywhere. And when other small block guys ask me how many rpm's and i tell them, they just shake their head and look at me like i am a dumb ***.

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lol that’s the truth.

In 1988 Chrysler guys were appalled that I was shifting a bracket car at 8200.

It got worse years later when on certain days I shifted at 9k.

It’s a viscous cycle that keeps retarding the parts we can buy.

These manufacturers know that 90% of these guys will never see over 7k and an honest 600 hp so they know that the already Uber small market is even smaller than it appears.

That’s why they keep making the same head with a different name on them.

It’s not new though. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s there were probably 15 or even 20 different 23 degree small block Chevy heads.

Outside of what I consider minor port volume differences they were the same head.

Magazines would do shootouts to show a clear winner but the only real winners were the manufacturers who got cheap advertising knowing they wouldn’t get shat on in the results.