Quote: Could somebody build it..........sure. Has history shown enough would buy it to make it a viable investment......No. Plus that ship has sailed. Chevy guys are WAY past 4.840 stuff now and 5.0 motors are "bracket" motors these days. Mopar is too far behind and even "hardcore" guys have just gone with the flow and have Chevy "based" power plants. Too little, too late, even if somebody WOULD do it. Plus, some feel the head would look so much like whats available for "other" motors, that "what's the point" and I tend to agree.
I don’t believe everyone in the bracket world is in pursuit of maximum effort builds. Many like myself would be content with retrofitting their old B1, -1, -13 type combos.
Look at the newly introduced trick flow head; I have spent enough years working as an engineer in the manufacturing sector to assure you that a new product line has essentially the same cost when tooling up for production regardless of geometrical variations. Then when you consider that all you are doing is reverse engineering a GM concept onto a std BBM bore space block - the product startup expenses are negligible in difference. Someone obviously thinks the ROI for yet another OEM replacement head is out there (personally I don’t, but it’s not my $$$$).
I clearly understand your view points Monte, but the larger bore spacing blocks basically mean all new components from ground up. My comment on economics is pointed at the shear raping the Mopar loyalist get today if interested in going to a spread port head design - it should barely cost more than purchasing any of the std 4.84 spread port GM parts…..if any more at all…..certainly not twice as much.
For me its all about $ per HP, An example for those who purchase from engine builders; you can spend 40K plus for a 1200 HP Mopar in a crate or 25K for the GM, so you have to ask yourself "just how loyal am I?"
I truly believe if someone would produce a good spread port symmetrical valve BBM head and price it right, it would dominate the Mopar market just like the -1 and B1 heads did in the early nineties. Typically there is more profit from volume than margin....the margin approach has a very short life line with no follow up sales....or so I was told - lol
FWIW
