Hey guys,
I want to buy the aluminum heads for my 88 5.0, this is what I have in mind, MSD complete Dist, MSD 6AL 6420, cobra intake upper and lower manifold, TB 70 MM,24 mm injector (don't know what brand yet) Lunati Cam duration 284/290, lift .535/.544, set of roller rocker arm ford racing aluminum, 1.6 ratio (studs size 3/8), water pump edelbrock. so here is my question what heads should I buy and what specifications to match what I just mentioned ? if I am missing anything please let me know so I can added to my list.

Thanks hope I get a lot of responses !



Ivan

 

afr 185 or a pair of tw. either way you cant go wrong. id look at a better intake then the cobra one tho

 

+1 on the afr heads.

The only Cobra intake I would run to make any real power would be one that Bennettracing has had their hands on.

 

Could a ported upper and lower Cobra intake match or at least get close to the Bennet Racing version?

 

I don't see why it couldn't.

I say from him because, his shop is less than an hour away and I see a lot of his parts being sold at tracks I go to.

 

The ported cobra was the route i was hoping to go. I looked into the Bennet Racing intakes and they are customized exactly to your set of cylinder heads so im thinking that could get a little pricey

 

If you have one, you can send it to him to be extrude honed. It will be pricey. He has a lot of people doing his work for him.

 

Can you explain to me what exactly extrude honed is?

 

From what I understand, it is where they cut the upper in half to port it, then weld it back together when they are done.

It is not going to be cheap. I went and talked to Jon about 5 year ago to do some work onon a 393 windsor. Using my block and rods, we were at 10 grand at the end of the conversation with a stage 2 port on the heads with a ported Victor intake to match.

I ended up having way less than half of that in one using a different builder with unported heads and one of his 69 blocks he had lying around.

 

I have a ported cobra upper andd lower on my 89 and it was opened up to the max...looks good