Edelbrock heads

Don't get your undies in a wad.

Edelbrock has very high quality out of the box. I would put their heads on and not sweat it for a second. The odds of some catastrophic failure occuring at the fault of those heads is extremely low.

Everything can be massaged to make more power than an out-of-the-box solution, or at least that's what the machinists who want your $$$ tell you. And any machinist you pay to do a "checkover" on an out of box solution is going to tell you he found something, so you'll come back with your next set of heads.

That said: Would I blow out the ports to make sure there aren't any shavings in them? Yes. Would I verify the torque on the rocker studs? Yes. Would I CC at least one chamber on each head? Yes.

Edit: All THAT said, Im really happy with the Iron Ram heads I got from Hughes. Cheaper (and heavier than) than the Ebrocks, but they came set up very well, and the valvetrain hardware was really nice also.

Steve