A little more Horsepower

[fastd]

Patrickt,

What do you think about changing the heads without changing the cam? Any brand and spec recommendations for heads and cam?

Regards.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by fastd

What do you think about changing the heads without changing the cam? Any brand and spec recommendations for heads and cam?

You could do it in steps. Changing the heads on SBF is something you can do yourself with medium mechanical skills (or the help of a friend). The brand of head is not nearly as important as the skill of the man that is doing the staging job. Nicely done aluminum heads will give you a good boost, but it will be important for you to chat over the fact that you are keeping the same 224/234 hydro cam, but that you might jump to something heavier if you're still not satisfied. Barry, Keith, Brent L. can all give you good deals on nicely staged SBF heads, maybe with an adjustable roller rocker set on there as well. That would give you plenty of options for the next step, should you choose to go there.

[patrickt]

Go here: http://www.keithcraft.com/ourheads.html and you can see that the cost of good heads goes up with the more work that is done. Shop around though and actually talk with the guys before you plunk down your money.

[blykins]

A set of AFR 185cc heads and a new camshaft will make a world of difference.

If you're running a hydraulic roller, I can recommend some cams that will give you a hp/tq boost without really changing the operating rpms/street manners.

If you're running a flat tappet cam, you will gain a great amount of power by switching to a roller cam.

I don't sell the AFR heads, but I can spec/sell you a custom Comp or Jones camshaft.

[patrickt]

Brent, do you know whether you can pull the cam out of a SBF on most of our Cobras without having to pull the engine?