You don't need to buy any fancy aftermarket head for your goals, ported LS3's will easily support 650+ hp.

Do yourself a big favor.....talk to the machine shop and have them port and smooth the oil passages in the engine block where the oil pump mounts to the block and the front 90 degree drilling that intersects the rear oil galley going to the rear passages to the oil filter ports. Check the oil pan and filter passages and port and smooth these passages too. The oiling system on the LS motor flat out SUCKS! for extended high RPM operation. The 2.00" rod journals are fine....that is the size of the original Small Block Chevy......worked well for many years with a good multistage dry sump system.....rod/main journal sizes can be further reduced as NASCAR has done to minimize oiling system power losses by reducing oiling system demands but, you had better have a good engineer helping with system design. NASCAR made 900HP 9000+RPM motors last for 500+ hard miles of racing with small Honda/IRL rods.....typically 1.88" journals. Frankenstein cylinder heads has one of the better LS3 CNC programs at this time but, don't know how backed up they are for deliveries.....if going aftermarket it's hard to beat the TFS head or MAST LS offerings.

Just have Tim send you a Finch motor. :hello:

Talk to West Coast Cylinder heads in Reseda Ca ;)

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I left them 3 messages this week, no returned phone calls yet. I've done the same with Hotchkis, and 2 other places I am looking for information on.

Not being able to get ahold of WCCH cost me a great opportunity on a set of All Pro heads.

I imagine this is busy season for everyone, but it's frustrating that I'm having so much trouble getting peoples' time to discuss their products...

Yes they are very busy (not making excuses for them) And for what it's worth, I e mailed Dave from WCCH and told him about this..

I appreciate that... I can say the person answering the phone was very nice, and she even remembered me from one of my earlier calls because apparently I was very "polite" to her... ;)

He said to call back Monday after 9:30.. Hope you get it taken care of.

:bang: I just typed up a huge reply with the events of the week, and somehow I lost it!!! :bur2: :bigun2: :twak: :hitaxeonthehead:

Sigh... I'll try again.

First, a quick followup on WCCH. Dave did call me Monday, so I think the message got through to them. He was able to answer most of my questions and apologized for the delay. So thanx for the help there...

I'll break up my other pieces of the story to make sure I don't lose them again...