Thumper Heads vs Trickflow/AFR

Another big believer in ported E7TE’s. I took home top honors at the local strip last year and ran 8.9’s at nearly 85 mph in 1/8 on Dunlop SP street tires with ported stock heads, ported lower intake and stock cam with 1.7RR, pulleys, electric fan conversion, 3.55 gears and full exhaust in my full weight, fully loaded ’87 5-speed LX. For comparison, all other 5.0L’s and 4.6L’s in the Street Class were running high between 77-81mph that day. A lot of whom were running various high dollar aluminum heads/intake combos.

I even managed to edge out another guy with the exact same year car who was running 3.73’s and all the other identical bolt-ons with untouched heads and intake, but a 125hp shot of nitrous to even things out........needless to say, when I popped my hood to reveal stock heads, intake and no nitrous, he was pissed.