400 inch sb with trick-flow 190 heads

Be interesting to see how they work for you. We ran an early set on the dyno on a mild 408 and they didn't do anything great. Worked okay, just weren't super impressive. The big block TF heads were impressive right out of the box on a variety of engines so we were expecting a lot from the SB heads.

So are these heads tons better than Edelbrock Performer RPM's? Enough that it's worth taking the Edelbrocks off a running engine and switching to the TF heads?

Ok, thanks. I know someone looking at doing this, but I didn't know if it was worth the effort. His Edelbrocks are gasket matched with minor porting + cleanup work done to them,

A- send the current heads out for porting, wait to get them back...... hope they flow as good as the ootb TF heads.

B-sell the current heads and apply that $$$ to the new TF heads/head bolts/pushrods.
Do the swap in a weekend.

If it was within $500-700-ish...... I’d def go with the TF’s.

A- send the current heads out for porting, wait to get them back...... hope they flow as good as the ootb TF heads.

B-sell the current heads and apply that $$$ to the new TF heads/head bolts/pushrods.
Do the swap in a weekend.

If it was within $500-700-ish...... I’d def go with the TF’s.

When I bought my used Edelbrocks the only other (aluminum) options were Indy and Brodex. I gave $700 for the heads, then sent them to Curtis Boggs. He charged $1100 to port, do a 5 angle valve job and mill them to 55cc chambers. IIRC they flowed 293 @ .600. I ran them for five years on my 340, 7.24 @ 3240# with a hydraulic cam and on pump 93. When I was building my 408 I sent them to Ryan Johnson to be freshened, the valves were beat so he installed new 2.055" intakes and 1.600" exhaust, blended the intake bowl and did a 5 angle valve job another $1000. In my street/strip Dart, 3260#, 10.8-1, 260/264°, .633/628" flat solid with 4.10 gears it ran a bunch of 6.57's at a little over 104 mph on pump 93. The rockers are Hughes 1.6's that I ground the pi$$ to clear the valve springs. I'm thinking the springs are 2.00" installed height but will have to take them out of them box and measure.

If a guy is starting with nothing the Trick Flow are probably a better value but if he already has the heads and rocker gear I'm not convinced. The numbers from the track I've seen so far from the Trick Flows haven't been really impressive.

Don't the Trick Flows use a rocker with a big block offset? A traditional small type block rocker won't work?

I think you are thinking about the Edelbrock Victor heads.

The Trick Flows I have on my 2000 5.9 magnum engine use regular LA Rocker arms. I have PRW 1.6 stainless steel rockers and mike from B3racing engines Geromity corection kit

i heard those victors r good

I gave $700 for the heads, then sent them to Curtis Boggs. He charged $1100 to port, do a 5 angle valve job and mill them to 55cc chambers.

I’ve gone 9.40’s with my Indy 360-1 heads but I would love porting a set of the Victor heads to see what I could go with them. They require different pistons so maybe when mine are worn out. I’m still running a solid lifter cam so that would have to change too so it would make the expense worthwhile

i like my indys

What year did that happen?

I would say yes they have gone up. I think I have $15-1600 in the porting in my Indy heads and intake from four years ago.

Maybe as more guys run the Trick Flows their advantage over ported Edelbrocks will show up on the time slip. It would be interesting to see what a good ported could do with a set to see what the potential really is.

We had this discussion over on Abodiesony. You can’t buy a head that flows 300cfm@.700 lift and run a .501 purple shaft hydraulic cam and see miracles.

I never thought that was the target market.

Has anyone noticed the odd shape of the TF exhaust ports? They appear they will not match exhaust gasket ports... especially the outer two ports.