See pics below. Paint has faded a bit since the photos. Exhaust crossover and passenger side header to turbo is complete. (couldn't find that photo)
Understood. Your intake is setup for the iron 300 ports? With boost I would run it with stock heads. We doubled the HP with a bone stock 74 350 on 8 psi. 160 Hp to 350 Hp, crank. I can’t believe TA doesn’t have any heads, they must have done non finished ones. They couldn’t have sold many? I think they only sold 8 or 9 sets of 350 heads and then quit machining them and left a pallet of bare heads to sit and collect dust.
They're short machinists, and their suppliers are way behind. Word is their v6 block run was taking them nearly a year to receive.
Funny, when I talked to Mike around the first of the year from the way he talked I got the impression they had a whole pallet of them. But I guess having them and having them ready to ship aren't quite the same thing. Jim
Comparison of Wildcat and TA heads: Wildcat Rover V8 in Mod Griffith chassis - Page 9 - Griffith - PistonHeads UK
I doubled the price on the Wildcat heads thinking per each. Per pair bare heads are $1248. Exchange rate 1.3 X British LB. Use 1.94 IN and 1.60 Chevy valves and rockers. WILDCAT HEADS ARE BACK! – Automotive Component Remanufacturing Ltd
If I had a set of usable and ready to run 300 heads sitting around I may have considered it. Shame to not take advantage of this 3.830" bore though...
Looks to me like the TA and the Wildcat heads are very similar, a side by side flowbench comparison would tell the tale though. A set of bare TA heads are about $1500. Jim
Big thank you to Sean for getting me in touch with Dan Jones, for Dan selling me a set of bare heads, and for Dan being so gracious to deliver said heads to Stiegemeier for porting. Looking forward to seeing the numbers. Now looking for a hydraulic roller cam blank for the 300
I bought a pair of roller cams from TA about the first of the year. They were out of the small blanks but eventually found a couple somewhere after we had decided to cut down a couple of the larger blanks. There was a surcharge involved. Don't know if they have restocked yet. Jim