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Best Heads for the Mulah

Started by darkfiire5000, November 29, 2014, 08:46:44 PM

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darkfiire5000

I have recently came into some extra cash and would like to know the best brand of heads to get for the money $. I don't want to go crazy but I need something with a little better performance then stock.

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Stegs

Quote from: darkfiire5000 on November 29, 2014, 08:46:44 PM
I have recently came into some extra cash and would like to know the best brand of heads to get for the money $. I don't want to go crazy but I need something with a little better performance then stock.

i was just informed from a member here about aerohead racing, a division on indy cylinder head

fully assembled heads for 600/pair

have upgraded everything, you can even option them to port/polish etc which is awesome

I think this is the way i will go!

morepower

600 for a pair? are they aluminum? that sounds too good to be true!
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Quote from: Stegs on December 01, 2014, 11:03:26 AM
Quote from: darkfiire5000 on November 29, 2014, 08:46:44 PM
I have recently came into some extra cash and would like to know the best brand of heads to get for the money $. I don't want to go crazy but I need something with a little better performance then stock.

i was just informed from a member here about aerohead racing, a division on indy cylinder head

fully assembled heads for 600/pair

have upgraded everything, you can even option them to port/polish etc which is awesome

I think this is the way i will go!

Best check to be sure ?
But,
I think those are rebuilt stock "iron" Heads... which when ported $$ will flow LESS... and cost MORE .... than entry level aluminum heads.
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68CoronetRT

Running Stealth heads for almost 2 years now and around 4k miles with zero issues. They did take some clearing to fit the pushrods, and I did upgrade the locks/retainers to 10* comp cams brand. So far so good.

BSB67

Quote from: darkfiire5000 on November 29, 2014, 08:46:44 PM
I have recently came into some extra cash and would like to know the best brand of heads to get for the money $. I don't want to go crazy but I need something with a little better performance then stock.

The best will likely have more to do with your piston height and your pocket book than anything else.  Also, you get what you pay for.

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69wannabe

It depends on your goal really and how much cash you got to blow!!! I don't race my car at the strip, mostly just a street car but it's plenty peppy to get the big car into the road. I had my cast iron heads built with comp springs, 10 degree locks and retainers, 214/181 valves and had some minor porting done and I had between $600 and $700 bucks tied up in them and they work fine and I can tell a good difference from before with the original size valves that were in them. Are they better than a set of $1500 eddy heads? No but they are a happy medium between stock and the aluminum heads for sale. The aerohead racing heads are stock heads but for around the same money you can get the bigger valves and the better casting heads 906/452's. I have read good and some bad about the aero heads but you could always get your local machine shop to check them over to make sure you got a good set of heads... ;D

b5blue

Call Todd, these are 850.00 per PAIR.  :2thumbs: I'm going to have him set up a set for my 440 soon.
http://www.mopartsracing.com/parts/Sidewinder.html

69wannabe

Quote from: b5blue on December 02, 2014, 06:25:18 AM
Call Todd, these are 850.00 per PAIR.  :2thumbs: I'm going to have him set up a set for my 440 soon.
http://www.mopartsracing.com/parts/Sidewinder.html

These do look nice!!! I forgot about these actually. If these are good quality heads for that price they will be hard to beat!!!! :yesnod:

b5blue

Tell him "b5blue" with the 70 Charger told ya to call. (I told him about the forum.)  :2thumbs:

c00nhunterjoe

In my opinion, unless you are building the whole engine, dont bother trying to slap a set of heads on it. The stock heads will support plenty of power for s respectable street car.
  - If your engine is currently stock, i would go with a cam/intake/headers route.
  - if you already did that, i would spend the extra cash on front discs
  - if you already did discs, i would buy frame connectors and new torsion bars and leaf aprings.

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b5blue

Quote from: c00nhunterjoe on December 03, 2014, 08:40:14 AM
In my opinion, unless you are building the whole engine, dont bother trying to slap a set of heads on it. The stock heads will support plenty of power for s respectable street car.
  - If your engine is currently stock, i would go with a cam/intake/headers route.
  - if you already did that, i would spend the extra cash on front discs
  - if you already did discs, i would buy frame connectors and new torsion bars and leaf springs.

I do agree, in my case I built my 440 with ending up having aluminum heads in mind. The result is I've been chasing way "ping" from the 346 heads and crappy gas. For me it's just time for the last part of the puzzle, I need the extra compression points you get from aluminum to balance things out. Had I used lower compression pistons and spent more money on the 346's by replacing all the valves, hardened seats, bronze guides, some flowing work and so on I don't even know what the $$ would have come to. I had to put my car in service to give my beater to my son for collage.