Me too, I was afraid 11:1 would be pushing it , but they have been good!
A couple of years ago at the Indy swap meet a guy was selling them for $5 apiece. I bought a couple sets, but should have bought all he had. He had a big stack of them.
ProComp/Speedmaster aluminum heads
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Me too, I was afraid 11:1 would be pushing it , but they have been good!
A couple of years ago at the Indy swap meet a guy was selling them for $5 apiece. I bought a couple sets, but should have bought all he had. He had a big stack of them.
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Well basically drinking coffee waiting for the 8 hour to strike. I mean come on $820 fully loaded aluminum heads sent to my door? I've been wanting aluminum heads since I've owned the car. I should easily be able to recoup half that with my old heads?? 596 heads with 202 valves K line valve guides and Crower Springs. Right now I can even sell them fly before you buy...
j par Hear me on this! Your heads (speedmaster) are on sale for 255.00 each. Buy these, and use your valves/springs/retainers/locks from your current heads. 510.00 bucks and it's DONE!
https://speedmaster79.com/Mopar-Chr...c-65ccCast-Bare-Aluminum-Cylinder-Head?page=1
https://speedmaster79.com/Mopar-Chr...c-65ccCast-Bare-Aluminum-Cylinder-Head?page=1
His current heads may have 3/8 valves an the speedmaster use 11/32.
SI sells good valves for decent prices. Those heads need sb chevy +.100 valve length.
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I think we covered this one, someone was saying that the valve stems are not the same length or size or something?
ok.... that's how much I look at aluminum heads... LOL
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My head's right now are great and for the $310 I would save I don't think I would like to cannibalize them...
They would be great on a driver project like maybe my 41 Studebaker when I finally put a motor in it...
They would be great on a driver project like maybe my 41 Studebaker when I finally put a motor in it...
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I had to hit the green button they've always been way too expensive to dream about....
I'm not going to side track your thread, but I think the cheap cheap way with little knowledge to rock a budget LA small block are magnum heads. I have everything to do this swap. When I do, I will do a thread on it. Like you, it will be ET to ET slip comparison.
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You know for me I've kind of always just like all the cool hot rod parts and stuff like that. Also this is my hobby is everybody knows and I just like to have fun with it and have cool stuff on the car that makes me happy. I like the idea of 50 pounds lighter. I like the idea of possibly running pump gas only which would be great, I like the idea of the possibilities of having them cnc'ed in the future and getting more flow...
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Have you seen a set of these unported?
Almost temping only because I have valves already from my Edelbrock heads from when I upgraded to 2.05 and 2.08 valves. Buy them, fix the valve job to how I do them, quick port job to get them in the 280-290 cfm area and sell them for 1100.00 or so.
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New heads and new clutch pedal parts, must be X mas at Jpars!
Put springs for a mech roller in them and you've got a deal.
What, no titianum retainers too. Lol
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$820 loaded sent to my door...
You'd be hard-pressed to get one Edelbrock head for that..
$820 loaded sent to my door...
You'd be hard-pressed to get one Edelbrock head for that..
Didn't want to seem greedy, but since you mentioned them....
All joking aside, my fear of Chinese springs/valves/keepers/retainers is too high for their normal price. Wouldn't mind a killer deal on the CNC ones for me to load with my own stuff.
I would be willing to bet that even the Edelbrock stuff isn’t made in America. That being said I always changed out the retainers, keepers, and springs as part of my upgraded. We did have a chunk of a stock intake valve break off in one of my sons engines which required me to pull both heads to fix it because the piece traveled from number 3 cylinder to number 6 cylinder
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Yes. I have a set being ported.
Likely not I suppose, I think the difference is in QC. Inspection and rejection of the inevitable bad parts when buying from China. I would think/hope Edelbrock does a better job than SM.
I've been looking at the trickflows, and $2400 loaded and ready to go is a good deal vs the normal price of $1800 for the loaded SM heads.
That's what I was looking for, didn't go enough pages down, page isn't great on phones, and no real way to filter. Thanks.
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I was wondering if you would give your impression of their bare heads as opposed to what like I have a set of 596 heads?
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