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Re: Anyone Interested In W5 Mopar Heads Please Read
[Re: ptowntsi]
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10/05/09 12:38 PM
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Brian Hafliger
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bump! Anyone going to produce these soon?
I don't understand the argument of "chrysler would rather see these destroyed than fall into the hands of a competitor"... they aren't making them so WHO THE HELL AT CHRYSLER CARES if someone else has them.
Because they are obviously a bunch of cry baby snobs...LOL  
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Re: Anyone Interested In W5 Mopar Heads Please Read
[Re: SomeCarGuy]
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10/06/09 02:28 AM
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Ryan is 100% correct, everyone is gone that was involved and when they were still there I was told there would never be any more W-5 stuff.Period. The powers to be wanted to sell the newer stuff.
As far as pricing goes if they do not make huge amounts off the aftermarket parts (way higher than the 3 times mentioned in the earlier post)they simply won't make it.
That said,prices now that the D is not calling the shots may moderate.They did not get the whole thing at all.Maybe Fiat will be more enlightened.
Leave the gun.......take the Cannoli's....Mike
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Re: Anyone Interested In W5 Mopar Heads Please Read
[Re: ram87]
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08/06/11 08:11 AM
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stevet340
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Personally I think it would not be worth Mopars time or money to re-issue the heads. There may be a lot of talk on here about buying a new set, but the fact is when it comes time to pony up the $$$$ few will or can afford it. I have a complete like new W-5 top end set up, from HS rockers Arp studs, ferrea valves, springs, sheetmetal tunnel ram, even their choice of headers with adapter plates, etc, etc, etc, I've tried to sell for a while now with only 3-4 inquiries and they only wanted to see pictures of the ports and see how the work was done to them so they could TRY to duplicate the work done to them... the heads I have make serious HP, have less than 40 passes on them, and have all the best parts, my car went 9.50s all day long with them at 3200lbs and 370 cubic inches, pretty small by todays standards... you couldn't buy the parts for what I want for everything let alone the machine work and porting, hell, the intake alone cost $3000, yet noone can step up to the plate???  So for someone to fork over $1200-$1500 for just plain heads then spend another $1200-$1500+ for porting, $900-$1300 for rockers, $400+ for valves, $400+ for Springs, retainers, seals, intake, machine work to be able to use them, etc, etc, etc, I just don't see that happening on a large scale basis for Mopar to justify re-issueing them. 
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Re: Anyone Interested In W5 Mopar Heads Please Read
[Re: S/ST 3040]
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08/06/11 08:23 AM
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stevet340
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Do you have any pictures of the port work?
I've had 3 sets of W-5s and sold them without using them.
When I'm done with factory heads, I'm going straight to 48*. 
Buy the heads and you can take all the pictures you want... 
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Re: Anyone Interested In W5 Mopar Heads Please Read
[Re: stevet340]
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08/06/11 11:50 AM
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sc4579
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I would like another set. I had 2 sets at one time, one was great but the other set did nothing but leak. I still have all the rocker gear and headers for an A-body with W5 I could put back to use.
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Re: Anyone Interested In W5 Mopar Heads Please Read
[Re: stevet340]
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08/06/11 10:54 PM
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Hot 340
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Personally I think it would not be worth Mopars time or money to re-issue the heads. There may be a lot of talk on here about buying a new set, but the fact is when it comes time to pony up the $$$$ few will or can afford it. I have a complete like new W-5 top end set up, from HS rockers Arp studs, ferrea valves, springs, sheetmetal tunnel ram, even their choice of headers with adapter plates, etc, etc, etc, I've tried to sell for a while now with only 3-4 inquiries and they only wanted to see pictures of the ports and see how the work was done to them so they could TRY to duplicate the work done to them... the heads I have make serious HP, have less than 40 passes on them, and have all the best parts, my car went 9.50s all day long with them at 3200lbs and 370 cubic inches, pretty small by todays standards... you couldn't buy the parts for what I want for everything let alone the machine work and porting, hell, the intake alone cost $3000, yet noone can step up to the plate??? So for someone to fork over $1200-$1500 for just plain heads then spend another $1200-$1500+ for porting, $900-$1300 for rockers, $400+ for valves, $400+ for Springs, retainers, seals, intake, machine work to be able to use them, etc, etc, etc, I just don't see that happening on a large scale basis for Mopar to justify re-issueing them.
Tell this to Indy as they rake in the $$$$.
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Re: Anyone Interested In W5 Mopar Heads Please Read
[Re: Hot 340]
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08/06/11 11:14 PM
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stevet340
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" Tell this to Indy as they rake in the $$$$. " W-5 heads are hard core race heads, Indy heads are for street monkeys... just my
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