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I have those exact heads on my car. So far I love them. My car is my daily driver so I need reliability. And Ford will only sell parts that are bolt on and go friendly. But, if I were building an engine that I only drive in good weather and weekends then I would spend the money on the more pricy stuff. Seems that you are on a budget so yeah get these heads. Also, you being in Atlanta I would just rebuild your original short block. With the H/C/I on a rebuilt stock block you should be able to reach 300+HP naturally aspirated easy.

Those heads are great budget heads. But if you plan on being a part of the 300rwhp crew I would cough of the $$ for some TW heads or the like. As far as short blocks go even at Tommie Vaughn Motorsport stock OEM 302 short blocks are being sold for $1299.00. The only way your going to find a short block for around $800 is used on ebay and or corrals classifieds(sp?). Good luck

Summit sells the Twisted Wedge kit. They own the Trick Flow brand. There are a few people here who are using this setup...no track times yet from them though. Wytstang is right about the short block...your not going to find a name brand shop that will sell it for cheap. Going to have to shop around.

Adam

I'm gonna give you the medicine straight up with no sugar coating.

Speed cost money! ...... How fast do you wanna spend?

A stock block 300 to 325rwhp combo is a goal that you can obtain.

With that goal in mind heres my .02 on not the cheapest way but a way that WILL DELIVER and give a GOOD VALUE for the money spent.

Having said that ...... you usually get what you pay for so some parts of your combo should not be a compromise, like the heads.

You will reach your goal with TFS, Edels, or AFR's period. I'm not knocking heads like gt40's, gt40p's thumper E7's or any other head that can be bought for 1/2 to 2/3 of the price of the big three I told you about. Some have done it with the Ford iron heads but they are the exception to the rule.

For a cam I'm a believer in the custom route for one main reason. The combo we are building is a mild STREET combo. The custom route will ensure a tq curve that is the most desireable of em all for a street motor ...... tq that rises steep at a very low rpm and stays flat until it approaches the redline. IMHO this is more important than peak power. Again we are talkin street, not race car. With an ots cam you most likely won't get that kind of tq curve.

As for the intake the TFS & Edel brands offer several that will get the job done.

Lt headers will prop up your low & mid range by a good bit and I'd tell you to run em instead of the shortys.

I'm not gonna get involved in the supporting parts like tb, maf, rr's (studs are stronger & give better valve adjustment range), inj's and the like.

Last thing I'd say is you will need some form of custom tune to reach your goal for max power. A custom tune can also give you stock like driving conditions with the exception of cam lope. You basically got two options ...... Pro Tune or Self Tune.

These thoughts have been followed by myself and many others on the various forums so you can easily compare their combos/dyno pulls to see if you wanna go down this road.

Later
Grady