What Are Procomp Heads Copied From?

You need a RV camshaft...not a HO cam. The truck needs more torque lower in the power band to get moving. Some folks call them " torque " camshafts...but I'm a lil' old school and like calling them " RV " cams. You'll also be if it from longer runners on the upper intake. There's a reason why truck intakes are so tall.

procomp heads.. snort. The owner of the company buys from different sources so who knows what heads you are getting. They used to be Speedmaster, Patriot and about a dozen other names. I've seem to many horror stories of leaking water, crooked valve seats or guides,aligment problems.stud holes drilled through the head.. and on an on

mikestang63 said:

procomp heads.. snort. The owner of the company buys from different sources so who knows what heads you are getting. They used to be Speedmaster, Patriot and about a dozen other names. I've seem to many horror stories of leaking water, crooked valve seats or guides,aligment problems.stud holes drilled through the head.. and on an on

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This.

But to answer the thread title, last I heard they were (cheap, bad) copies of edelbrock victor jr. heads.

Chuckman said:

This.

But to answer the thread title, last I heard they were (cheap, bad) copies of edelbrock victor jr. heads.

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yep. Pete has ( or used to have) boxes of Edelbrock heads sent to China to copy.

hoopty5.0 said:

Dude I can't even keep one turbo car running. Two would end in divorce.

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Now now Collin.

Don't be so hard on yourself. It's a learning curve for all of us. I've done more than my share of damage to an engine/car as a result of not knowing any better...

Shall I list?

Ran the Big Turbo'd, R block'd meth fueled 363 that I whore the pic everywhere too lean 3 times in a row sorting it out. Killed an TFS R head twice, and cut a trench into the block where it couldn't be saved.

Rattled the 351w so hard that I split the 351 in half in the Mitsu that's pictured in my sig.

After initially killing the fresh engine build due to a wiped cam lobe during breakin-in, Ran my budget 460 on 93 octane pump gas w/ 37 degrees timing,...and 300 HP of two staged nitrous. Consequently blowing out a freeze plug, which caused loss of control, as a result of painting the track with antifreeze, and caused my newly finished 1980 coupe to hit the wall at the local track. After swapping the engine into another car, I learned about octane, and timing w/ regard to nitrous, and changed both accordingly to allow the car to run, but eventually split a cylinder open and killed that engine in the new car.

Put pistons in upside down in my 428CJ car,..effectively putting the valve reliefs where there was no valve to "relieve". Guess how many intake valve I bent.

I'm sure that if I really think about it,..I could write a small pamphlet on the boneheadisms I've done w/ engines/cars over the last 40 years,..but that would take a concentrated effort.

Your engine died because you needed to learn a few things,.....now hopefully you know them. That's how we learn.

Check your exhaust manifolds, a small exhaust leak at the flange can sound like a lifter tick.

If that's a roller motor (I know the 94+ blocks are roller ready but don't know when they actually switched cams) a thicker oil may reduce the ticking. I've always ran 10w-30 in pushed motors and 5w-20 in ohc's.

Time for long tubes!