Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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Stage V seem to be the best choice per several threads. Matt
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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I love Stage V's but they are not ready to bolt on at all unless you want to buy them from a very expensive shop that has done the completion. Edelbrock heads are ready to bolt on, cheap and have good numbers.
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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I love Stage V's but they are not ready to bolt on at all unless you want to buy them from a very expensive shop that has done the completion. Edelbrock heads are ready to bolt on, cheap and have good numbers.
rick, what do you mean here? they are just like any other head.
if you want them to flow to the capacity they can, then yes, you need them ported. i don't know if that is much more than porting any other set of heads, i've never done the comparison.
but as far as i know, get a set of heads, put valves and springs and the usual, and you are ready to go.
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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that's a loaded question, be prepared for a load of answers!
this is where the money is on a hemi, the heads and the valve train.
it depends what kind of HP you are looking for. you can put an ootb set of mopar or now edelbrock heads on, and they will make for a decent package, but nowhere near what a hemi can do.
a ported set of stage V heads are the way to go imho.
I would like to make about 700-750HP or a little more.
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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I thought that the MP heads were Edelbrocks. Are there different Edelbrocks now?
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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Thanks for the clarification.
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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Pretty much any of the heads available will make the power you want. Just buy them from someone who does a lot of hemi work and will set them up right. Can't go wrong w/ Stage V.
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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that's a loaded question, be prepared for a load of answers!
this is where the money is on a hemi, the heads and the valve train.
it depends what kind of HP you are looking for. you can put an ootb set of mopar or now edelbrock heads on, and they will make for a decent package, but nowhere near what a hemi can do.
a ported set of stage V heads are the way to go imho.
I would like to make about 700-750HP or a little more.
Unported Stage V heads can support this power level easily on a 572. I have unported Stage Vs on a 528 making 704HP.
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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Unported Stage V heads can support this power level easily on a 572. I have unported Stage Vs on a 528 making 704HP.
cool, nice to know!
just think what it would be doing if they were ported!
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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I thought that the MP heads were Edelbrocks. Are there different Edelbrocks now?
Yes, the MP heads are made by Edelbrock. Edelbrock now makes a new Victor Jr hemi head that is different then the MP head and that came out in th emiddle of last year. I believe he was referring to the two different Edelbrock heads. I just bought a set of these last week. They were at pretty decent price with 10% discount from Summit. $2350 for a set of complete hemi heads that flow like these are supposed to, is not too bad IMO.
http://www.edelbrock.com/automotive/mc/cylinder-heads/chrysler/victor-jr-bb.shtml
This sounds great. Is Summit still offering that 10% discount?
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Re: What set of 426 Hemi heads to buy for street & strip?
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I second Stage V, call Tim at FHO, you will be happy, he's great to work with.
I have looked at the FHO website and he doesn't have prices listed and that most likely means that they are super expensive.
He probably has a good product but is unaffordable to me at this time.
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