OnyxCobra

yes.

stangman94

And with trickflow.
AFrs 185 heads gained 75 horsepower on a 392 Ford Crate Motor. Trickflows gained 78 m horsepower with a e303 cam and a gt40 intake on a cobra .So the 165's and the trickflows should be about even on a stock car. I believe the tune will make the decision and your setup as to what cam and intake you went with

I just put my trickflow heads on last tuesday and I couldn't be more happy.

PearlWhiteGT

Is it worth the $$$ to have my Typhoon lower intake ported? I thought about finding a used system max intake also or should I just leave it only?

OnyxCobra

A lot of people with the trickflow top end kit fall short of 300whp, and that kit was designed for all those parts to work together. A lot of people have made over 300whp with AFR 165s with a random off the shelf cam and intake...

88BlueGT

Yea, usually falls short about 20-30rwhp!

stangman94

I've only seen one afr car and he's makin 322 rwhp I still thinks its possible to do an hci with trickflow and make or 300 rwhp.

LTnone

Everything has been pretty well covered already, but I'm going to say the same thing I do every time this debate pops up (weekly): Out of the box, I'd take AFR's. Of course. I went Trick Flow because sometime down the line I'm going to port them. And when I do, they're going to make a hell of a lot more power than AFR's will, ported or not. This is because the TF's have a lot more meat on them, and the potential to be opened up is a lot greater. Just something to think about.

88BlueGT

I have been year for way over a year, and everytime I have ever seen anyone buy a TF top end kit (whcih is a whole lot) I have never seen one person make over 300rwhp w/ normal bolt ons w/ a stock bottom end 302.

PearlWhiteGT

I guess I will go with the AFR 165's & a custom cam. Will this make some good #'s?

88BlueGT

Yea, it should make really good numbers.. But if you are going to go w/ a custom grind you can go with a 185 head.