AFD alum heads for cleveland

[chris393W]

Originally Posted by Keithc8

Just to make things clear we can make over 700HP with the Edelbrock heads but why mess with it when there are better heads out there. I have made close to 800HP* with the stock cast iron 4V heads and a lot of work.*If you are going to get into this head deal and HP just go ahead and get some Blue Thunder 4.3 heads or some Ford D4 Cup heads and make 1000HP with a big inch small block. How big is ones pocket book and how much power do they want to make.*There are a bunch of heads out there and a lot of them will achieve the same thing in maybe a different way. Are you trying to use a stock intake? Are you trying to use a stock style exhaust? Are doing everything from scratch and money is no option.*You have to remember that the Engine Master deal will only let you use certain heads on certain engines. Some engines came from the factory with better heads. If they made you use a stock cast iron head the 351C would still be the way to go because it along with the BBC have the best head from the factory. Since they let you work on the head anyway that you want you can da all sorts of stuff. We were filling in the ports on the 351 4v heads 20 years ago and filling the floor on the exhaust and opening them up per NHRA Super Stock rules and getting 370cfm intake and 250cfm exhaust almost 20 years ago. The new Blue Thunder and D4 heads we have will go 440cfm intake and 300 cfm exhaust. It is just time and money and most people do not want to spend it. At least we have after market heads now for Fords, when I started we had to work on the cast iron stock stuff. Good luck, Keith Craft

My point exactly. I bet the Edelbrock heads were run as stock. I bet they had no hand porting, which the AFD heads clearly had, yet they are being used as a comparison.

Even more interesting is the highlighted text below. I got the text below from the link provided in the post above. Its talking about the same alleged 740hp engine Lawrence from Ausford parts was talking about, only this time its 666hp. Funny that.....

No, your eyes are not deceiving you; this outrageous rig is a 1951 Series 1 Land Rover - owned and piloted by Chad Taylor. Mind you, there's not a lot left of the ol' girl. A more apt description might be the outer shell of a '51 Landie draped over a chrome-molly, tube-frame chassis. Nonetheless, with a 666-horse (496kW), 393-cube (6.4-litre) Ford Cleveland V8 under it's nose, this matt-green beast has managed to sprint down the quarter-mile in a whisker over 9.5 seconds, nearing 140mph (225km/h).***

I agree with KeithC8. There are heaps of choices out there and it all depends on a persons budget. The 340 looks impressive until you look further. Ausford parts goes on about how their stuff is affordable. Hell that engine has hand finished heads,* a Wilson modified manifold on it and fuel injection. How is that affordable ? Id hate to think waht the Wilson manifold allone is worth. Is that what it takes to get good results from an affordable cylinder head???