I was talking about a 5.0 if that matters.Oh, no. I’m with Scott too, aka hotfox.
Aaaaaand you can easily double the power of a factory Windsor. The 351 in my truck makes a whopping 210 fwhp. I could double that without even messing with displacement.
meh,..Let him do that with a stock head."I've done something that nobody can do with a NA Windsor.
Double the factory rated HP."
Oh boo. You should have qualified your statement originally, knowing either Iowa Nick or someone was going to call you on it.
Ok, then lets go the 5.0 route, citing @NIKwoaC as an example. He has an '86 5.0. The factory rating was 200/285. With a good set of heads, a REALLY mild cam, and nothing else really special, he put down something like 333 rwhp. call it 17% drivetrain loss, and he's at 390 fwhp, just 10 hp short of doubling the factory output. I'd bet with a little more cam and timing, he could add another 30 easily.
how can you refute that? You've got a "good" head that you made even better by porting. You've got a mild-ish cam. That's the same thing Nik did and boom. double-double.
meh,..Let him do that with a stock head.
Collin, you can call my head a good head if you want. The fact of the matter is that the head was made by Ford au. in 1980. And that old assed head is sitting on an engine never intended to make any more power than the 100 HP it was rated at in 1968.
And is miles behind a set of afr 205's sitting on a roller cammed v8.
He can use any stock head he wants to put on it, and port the piss out of it as well to include a Cleveland head if he wants, just use what Ford made
And see if you can make that work with a set of GT 40's
My point was that it was the best head I could hope for back then ( it was the only head that could be counted on for any kind of power, it was the only head that was made of aluminium, it was the hands down the BEST head I could hope for.)Mike, I didn't call the head good, YOU did. You were creaming yourself in the first few pages (the quick reference post #1 was quite helpful) of the thread about how awesome the Aussie aluminum crossflow head is and "the Aussies did big things with it."
But here we are, 400 pages and 5 years later, in NA form. Today, it's just an old assed head, never destined for greatness. What changed?
I should point out, I'm not trying to argue because I'm butthurt about anything, I just dont think that the windsor comment had any merit. The car looks great, it's different and unique. I like it a lot and deserves a 10/10 for execution.
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