So I am trying to decide on a major mod upgrade. Everyone seems to go with cams but I am wondering what the results would be with a head swap vs a cam swap...
Say one was to go with Steen Racing Stage 1 Heads $1459.00 (Or another company with similar specs) and there flow #'s @ .50lift are 201/170 cfm vs the stock flow #'s @ .50 179/150 cfm. Thats an increase of 22/20 cfm of flow. How does that translate into horsepower? This is all assuming that the stock cams have .50 of lift... I am just curious what the gains would be of doing a head swap but going with the stock grind cams. The advantages being no rough idle, easier to tune, no problems with faulty cams, cost, ect... There are also stage 2 heads with bigger valves and significantly increased cfm flow but I am thinking that a stock intake manifold would probably be the weak link and therefore you probably wouldnt be able to take advantage of the increase without some type of a power adder. But I dont know... Has anyone any input on this? Would this be worthwhile, or are aftermarket cams necessary to take advantage of bigger heads?
My car is my daily driver so I just I would throw this out there...
Say one was to go with Steen Racing Stage 1 Heads $1459.00 (Or another company with similar specs) and there flow #'s @ .50lift are 201/170 cfm vs the stock flow #'s @ .50 179/150 cfm. Thats an increase of 22/20 cfm of flow. How does that translate into horsepower? This is all assuming that the stock cams have .50 of lift... I am just curious what the gains would be of doing a head swap but going with the stock grind cams. The advantages being no rough idle, easier to tune, no problems with faulty cams, cost, ect... There are also stage 2 heads with bigger valves and significantly increased cfm flow but I am thinking that a stock intake manifold would probably be the weak link and therefore you probably wouldnt be able to take advantage of the increase without some type of a power adder. But I dont know... Has anyone any input on this? Would this be worthwhile, or are aftermarket cams necessary to take advantage of bigger heads?
My car is my daily driver so I just I would throw this out there...