Re: Edelbrok (SP) Aluminum heads for Magnum 318s?

From: Jon Steiger (jon@dakota-truck.net)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 22:39:14 EDT


At 10:04 PM 5/25/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey Great news
> (Maybe) I was talking to a bad ass racer (82 Toy Supra FAST Mo FO)
>anyways eh was talking about some guy down the street from him, ordering some
>Edelbrok aluminum heads for his 95 318 Dakota! He said there not listed, but
>if you call the right people you can get some. The price I was told was 1200
>a HEAD so 2400 total but it was like 2.08 Intake and 1.87 exhaust (Don't
>quote me, just numbers that are stuck in ym head) flowed alot better than
>factory! Too cool

    These are the Mopar Performance heads. (Edelbrock did the work for
MP.) You'll want to raise your compression ratio if you want to get max
power out of them though; due to the heat dissipation qualities of the
aluminum, you'll lose a good deal of the additional power you gain due to
better flow. IMHO, for the best bang for the buck, he'd probably be better
off with a set of ported cast heads. (You could get a set of brand new
cast heads and have them ported with a 3 angle valve job for the same price
as ONE aluminum head.) :-P Pretty cool that they're finally available though.

                                               -Jon-

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