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What Heads for 600+ RWHP?

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Hickfied

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The title says it all. I am building a huge 351, and I need a nice set of heads to start it off. I am going with a custom solid roller cam, and Spyder intake. I was looking at the bare AFR 225's, but I have heard of a few other heads also.

What would be a good head for this application?
 

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BTT
 
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cnc ported trick flows
 
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R2D2

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Id be running a nice take off nascar special, yates heads and intake 2 grand
 

Mr. Rustypwnz

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what about canfields?
 

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trickflows prolly arent gonna cut it.

if its NA, i would say 225s would be your ticket.
 

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I was betting on getting 225's I am going to be N/A to 350-400RWHP, then a 200 shot
 

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CHI, Yates or Blue Thunder
 

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sbftech said:
Id be running a nice take off nascar special, yates heads and intake 2 grand
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Yup,thats not a bad way at all,I just dont like it cause it make it look like a Cleveland Oh and your a little off on the price,thats like the buddy price.It probably gunna run your about $3K for the heads,then you want a good intake is about $300,and a dominator carb with about $1-1.1K depending on what you want.Of course if your gunna do that spring for a sheet metal tunnel ram

TFS "R's" with porting or Victors with porting would work too.

AFR 225's arent bad,but probably not gunna make as much power as you would want.
 
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bluevenom867 said:
Yup,thats not a bad way at all,I just dont like it cause it make it look like a Cleveland Oh and your a little off on the price,thats like the buddy price.It probably gunna run your about $3K for the heads,then you want a good intake is about $300,and a dominator carb with about $1-1.1K depending on what you want.Of course if your gunna do that spring for a sheet metal tunnel ram

TFS "R's" with porting or Victors with porting would work too.

AFR 225's arent bad,but probably not gunna make as much power as you would want.
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clevelands own, and there are typically atleast 1 dozen ebay auctions for loaded yates heads and intake for around 2-2.5. Right now its slim, I check weekly for a few more sets I could shelf
 

bluevenom867

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sbftech said:
clevelands own, and there are typically atleast 1 dozen ebay auctions for loaded yates heads and intake for around 2-2.5. Right now its slim, I check weekly for a few more sets I could shelf
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Ahh,but is that befor you take them to the machine shop to have them checked out,put new springs on and a new valve job? Cause I would do that befor I ran them.

Do you do porting on the intake?
 

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bluevenom867 said:
It probably gunna run your about $3K for the heads
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NASCAR-FORD-YATES-C3-CYLINDER-HEADS-ROUSH-mustang-turbo_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33617QQihZ017QQitemZ270024989105QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD1V

If you look around on racingjunk.com and just talk to a few people its not hard to find a price like SBFT is quoting...
 
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bluevenom867 said:
Ahh,but is that befor you take them to the machine shop to have them checked out,put new springs on and a new valve job? Cause I would do that befor I ran them.

Do you do porting on the intake?
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I do that stuff myself, but anyone who is gonna be running a yates head knows whats involved. The other head I would run is a CHI. Hmm is that a cleveland head?
 

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225's
 
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Check out the brodix 225 track 1's or the Dart Pro 1 CNC's.

Anthony
 

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Yep, AFR 225's since you'll be running N/A most of the time, which is almost "to big" of a head N/A really. Then a little play room to help the 200 shot. Get the exhaust ports worked on them, to get the extra "explosion" out quicker/more efficiently...
 
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I run Twisted Wedge with over 600rwhp... but I have 13psi to help me along. I'd look at some ported Edelbrocks or Canfields.
 

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cleveland heads
 

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sbftech said:
The other head I would run is a CHI. Hmm is that a cleveland head?
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What about the Jegs/Kaase heads?

It looks like with some work they could keep up with the Victors or Yates.
 
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If you are shooting for 600 ponies at the wheels why not start off with a 460 and throw some aluminum heads and a cam at it. Much easier to achieve 600 ponies at the rear wheel with a big block then with a small block. You won't need any power adder either and i bet you it would be cheaper to build.
 
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