Aluminum heads on stock 302

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I’ve got a question about putting some aluminum heads on my stock bottom end 302 in my 1994 mustang. Just wondering if I can put the heads on without changing the cam? I’ve read that in some cases you got to change cam to avoid valve in to piston contact. Any one ever put aluminum heads on stock engine??

 

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I have definitely put aluminum heads on stock cam!
Woke up the car dramatically.
Not very familiar with this site but I have done 2 write ups with facts on this site

 

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aztecgwynn said:

I have definitely put aluminum heads on stock cam!
Woke up the car dramatically.
Not very familiar with this site but I have done 2 write ups with facts on this site

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Okay, sweet! What year car did you put the heads on? And what aluminum heads did you use??

 

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94stang98 said:

Okay, sweet! What year car did you put the heads on? And what aluminum heads did you use??

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Also, did you use stock pushrods and rocker arms??

 

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I replaced pushrods with new pushrods and also replaced stock rockers with scorpion stock ratio roller rockers

 

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aztecgwynn said:

I replaced pushrods with new pushrods and also replaced stock rockers with scorpion stock ratio roller rockers

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Did you use just stock length pushrods? What heads did you use? Or what heads do you recommend?

 

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The standard starting point is kind of heads, cam, and intake. It would be most beneficial, if you have the means, to overhaul the whole top end. The stock cam is tiny at best, and with the increased flow capibility of aluminum heads a cam would be a good idea.

An intake wouldn’t hurt either, and that’s the beginning of the rabbit hole.

 

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1993 Ford Mustang lx. I did mine in stages 1) was heads and roller rockers 2) cobra intake and larger mass air flow

 

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I did not change cam and only reason I didn’t change was emission laws here in Az are very strict and my mustang is my daily driver.
I also had car tuned once everything was done

 

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been done 1000 times