Hello
I'm interested in a good set of heads for my daily driver. She used to have a set of E6SE heads but they've since been sold. (they replaced my 67 thermactor heads)
Some info on the car.
67 289 block .040 over with 302 internals, so roughly 306 i guess.
cam is Crower #15206 .246/250 @ .050, lobe seperation 112, cam was recommended to me by Crower (local here in San Diego) because i was looking for smooth idle and torque
AOD tranny with stock 8" with 2.76 final ratio. Stock stall converter 1800 i believe.
Power disc front brakes and a/c
JBA short headers, 2 1/4" exhaust
Car is be used as a daily driver, will rarely ever see over 4000rpm and probably 90% freeway travel. Most interested in fuel economy and keeping the engine in its torque band for freeway cruising, i was turning 1650 rpm @ approx 70 mph but i felt like i was giving it an awful lot of gas to keep it there.
I was looking at the Ford Racing x307's but i'm concerned about the larger high flow ports, the Twisted wedge 170's looked ok but i'm thinking the large 2.02 valves aren't good for my application. I'm leaning towards the AFR 165's (#1472 so i can re-use my roller rockers) plus i plan to have them milled down 4cc to 56cc.
Ive also looked at RHS heads, Thumper, Powerheads, just not really sure what i should be looking for to achieve my goals.
The intake i have right know is an 83 gt 4brrl with 4 hole spacer ( to give the AOD linkage clearance) but I'll be putting on a projection III fuel injection system same time i do the heads, would the weiand Xcelerator with the 4 hole spacer be better for the fuel injection on a daily driver?
I normally post after i run into problems so this time i thought i would post and get all the great advice you guys dish out before spend my hard earned cash.
so any advice would be appreciated, i did search on "daily driver" "best heads" etc, but those goals were more for horsepower applications.
If there are better heads out there that require a switch to stud rocker arms thats ok, ditto if a better final gear ratio helps. Would like to work with the cam i already have, i ran a comp cams xe250h through camquest and it was close to my cam in dynotune.
Thank you.
I'm interested in a good set of heads for my daily driver. She used to have a set of E6SE heads but they've since been sold. (they replaced my 67 thermactor heads)
Some info on the car.
67 289 block .040 over with 302 internals, so roughly 306 i guess.
cam is Crower #15206 .246/250 @ .050, lobe seperation 112, cam was recommended to me by Crower (local here in San Diego) because i was looking for smooth idle and torque
AOD tranny with stock 8" with 2.76 final ratio. Stock stall converter 1800 i believe.
Power disc front brakes and a/c
JBA short headers, 2 1/4" exhaust
Car is be used as a daily driver, will rarely ever see over 4000rpm and probably 90% freeway travel. Most interested in fuel economy and keeping the engine in its torque band for freeway cruising, i was turning 1650 rpm @ approx 70 mph but i felt like i was giving it an awful lot of gas to keep it there.
I was looking at the Ford Racing x307's but i'm concerned about the larger high flow ports, the Twisted wedge 170's looked ok but i'm thinking the large 2.02 valves aren't good for my application. I'm leaning towards the AFR 165's (#1472 so i can re-use my roller rockers) plus i plan to have them milled down 4cc to 56cc.
Ive also looked at RHS heads, Thumper, Powerheads, just not really sure what i should be looking for to achieve my goals.
The intake i have right know is an 83 gt 4brrl with 4 hole spacer ( to give the AOD linkage clearance) but I'll be putting on a projection III fuel injection system same time i do the heads, would the weiand Xcelerator with the 4 hole spacer be better for the fuel injection on a daily driver?
I normally post after i run into problems so this time i thought i would post and get all the great advice you guys dish out before spend my hard earned cash.
so any advice would be appreciated, i did search on "daily driver" "best heads" etc, but those goals were more for horsepower applications.
If there are better heads out there that require a switch to stud rocker arms thats ok, ditto if a better final gear ratio helps. Would like to work with the cam i already have, i ran a comp cams xe250h through camquest and it was close to my cam in dynotune.
Thank you.