Originally Posted by 83hurstguy
High 400's for the horsepower with HP exhaust manifolds and mildly ported iron heads shouldn't be too hard to accomplish. It seems to be easier to get over 500 when you start putting some compression into it and you won't be pump gas friendly. With exhaust manifolds, you need a cam that has minimal overlap (unlike the 110 LSA on that cam in there). So if you want a choppy idle to sound cool, headers and cam overlap are your friend. If you are cool with a milder idle sound and making power with exhaust manifolds, you can get them to work pretty well. I'd recommend a Bob K "Mr Six Pack" cam or calling Dwayne Porter for something custom, Andy's testing articles he linked to above are good info too...


Contact Dwayne Porter , member fast68plymouth , he's in burlington Vt. , not sure how far that is from you. If you go with the source heads get the CNC'd versions or at least send them to Dwayne to clean them up and change out any questionable parts. And for gods sake don't buy cheap chinese junk roller rockers ...


running up my post count some more .