More neutral to negative comments than I would have expected. Unless you were running Indy stuff, this was the premier head for over 10 years. Mild street engines? People were using them on a ton of stroker builds and went pretty quick. With unported stealths flowing in the 250's, typical competent ported heads in the 260-270's (real world) and these in the 270-280 range (I think the early ones were really pretty close to 290), I think they are a great choice of head. Until recently, you had to go to truly race type heads until the Trickflows came out.
Not giving anyone specifically a hard time and this is the "Race" section, but I feel these heads saved big block mopar street/bracket engines in the early 2000's as we really had nothing else other than 40 year old iron and horrible Stage VI castings..
A lot of guys always want the new kid on the block. Edelbrock big block heads easily go 300 plus with minor work. 310-320 with some effort and probably push 330 with a valve change and a little more work. Put on a ported single plane intake and a big enough cam and you have more street, street strip power than most guys want or need.
