Originally posted by shevy not heme
Erik,no, I'm just trying to get some people out of the mentality that says that it has to be bigger to be better. Fact is,these heads have 80,000 miles on them with no cracks or serious problems at all. A good valve job and they will flow plenty good enough to get me in the 14's. Here's my point,if these 'junk' heads will do what I want, then somebody tell me why I should put $600 or more in a better flowing head if I don't need to? Can't get 14's out of 305 heads??? Sure you can. If I can run these junk,disrespectful heads and get a consistant 14 sec. 'bracket' racer why should I feel bad when I send guys trailor loading that have $2000+ heads on 10 & 11 sec. cars?
And come to think of it,if only the high dollar,fastest cars are the only one's to deserve respect then only top fuel cars should be allowed in the NHRA. But as I recall,I think there are still several classes/catagories. Isn't this what the different classes are all about?
Our American mentality gets the best of us sometimes. Bigger,better,more expensive, or it is trash? There has been quite a few 14,15,16 sec. brackett cars take the trophy home running 'junk' and we break far less parts.
Erik,pistons can be installed backwards,add 10hp,& not be noisy.
Pistons can be installed backwards and add 10 h.p. and not be noisy.Who in the world told you this?Why would you even try this?How or why would it make more h.p.?Here is a thought.The next time I buy a $700 set of buckets for one of my race engines I am going to install them backwards.I think not!!Don't you think the engineers that designed the pistons knew what they where doing?Why even try to second guess them?