more engine pictures:
The heads story - I wanted to go with AFR's 195cc intake runner heads, the regular type, which flow about 270cfm at .500 lift. I looked around for the best deal but couldn't bring myself to spend 1500$ on a pair of heads. So the search continued until I found the new patriot freedom early SBC heads. They just started making them and they're the standard run-of-the-mill aluminum heads you might buy from any company. In short, they aren't AFR's, dart, or brodix. I called them up and they told me to call one of their distributors who had some promotional goodies for the first short while that the heads were being introduced. Talk about luck, I called them up and they had a pair of new patriot freedoms with a 195cc intake runner that were bowl blended (which I believe patriot also offers), pocket ported, dual springs set up for the roller lifters, and all at a price of 750$. Thats half price the AFR's for damn near the same performance take 5 or 10 hp. I also received a flow bench test which sets them at 255 cfm at a .500 lift. The other interesting thing is between a 500 and 600 lift airflow increases significantly, at a higher percentage than the AFR's (not saying the 600 lift is higher than the AFR's, but these heads close the gap considerably during this lift but fizz out afterward). So I bought a cam with a 510/520 lift to take advantage of this fact while saving vacuum for the street. The next luck with heads came a few days after I bought the patriots when I ran across some 283/327 heads someone had bolted onto an old 350 at a junkyard. If anyone wants the 327 heads we might work out a price - just send me a message and I can send you pictures.
