mjr46

because budget often rules ones life!!! and yes I know I said that, however,.......I paid 300 for a set of C9OE heads for my 66 that had been converted to screw in studs, manley ss 1.94/ 1.50 valves and were lightly ported,......the bang those heads delivered for the buck were well worth it... as my friend with a similar set up but with edelbrock rpm heads = 1200.00 ran even with me and infact mine had a little more acceleration than his, barely noticable, but evident

minnow81469

yeah but i listened to you instead of doing my heads i bought some used sr heads and yeah baby ill be ripping better than those ported polished e7 heads any day and i paid less for the heads and rr's than having mine reworked

mjr46

^^^^good glad to hear.......FYI my tone in this thread is not advocating using stock E7'S...SO don't misunderstand what point i'M making, THE goal for my 66 was way different than my 85...my 85's goal is run in the 10's so budget was no concern = do what it takes...now for my 66 the goal was different, build a decent street runner by buying the best modified oem produced stuff I could fine for the least expensive price possible.....and I achieved the goal before the build car ran 15's @ 87mph after build it ran 13.3 @104 on street tires again there never was an et goal with car....bottom line there would be a time and place to use heavily modified E7'S like the ones from thumper..when class racing requires such or you came across a set for 200 beans, I'd never pay what they sell them for direct, that's all I was infering

Slow5o

im lookin to run 10`s on nitrous so as i have stated in my other thread im a newb to the v8 carb cars i have a dodge neon srt-4 2.4L 4cyl that has 750 hp thats what im familiar with seeing as im 25 and this is gonna be a new drag toy i paid nothing for so im wanting to put as little money into it now as i plan on building a 347 stroker in the next year

mjr46

so wait until you build the stroker to run 10's, done right =no bottle needed

Portmaster

Well said. The things people sometimes misunderstand is that sometimes it isn't all about maximum power but building a nice crisp street performer. Everything isn't about racing the next guy but building something within your means. Sometimes that means using modified OEM parts. Everyones golas are not to hit the 10's. I've built engines for fiberglass kit cars that were basicly stock engines with very mild head work and a long duration cam and a pair of small four barrel carbs. In a 2200 pound Cobra kit car it sounded great ran fairly well and sounded mean. Thats all the owner wanted. He could have cared less what the 1/4 mile times were. It's all about the goals for the car as to what you can get away with. My wifes car runs 13.20s. She loves it and doesn't want to change a thing.Differant people differant goals. Why put 2000 dollar heads on a car that is just a crisp running street car.

minnow81469

while we are on the subject of heads on hear whats the difference in the e7 heads and the e7te

OnyxCobra

wait a minute u want to run 10s with ported stock heads and a TFS2 cam??

Tberg725

Um they're the same head, people just don't feel like puttin te all the time lol.

mjr46

correct you are