Drew, From the offset I have wanted to know why there are no new Iron alternative for the FE. When Dart, World, and RHS, along with others volume alloy casters, cast Iron counterparts for there SB Ford, Chevy, Chrysler heads. These are large company's that, as some have stated cast iron to satisfy sanction body's for certain motorsports. However that is not there only market. Many buy them because they work good and do not cost an arm and a leg. I sincerely believe that they could do the same for the FE. However just recasting the C1's I run or C4 's and C'6s others would make no sense. Which is why I asked about a newly designed fast burn FE head one that works good but doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
You run the old Iron? Which? Like I said I run a nice set of Ported C1's, the cost to build is around 1700 from Garrett Machine about the same as the ED's from JEGS but I did it one piece at a time and Mike worked with me. If I had wanted a set of CJ's done up they would have been around 2500 from Mike, or Tom Lucas at FE Specialty's, or a few other builders which is why I did not do a set, and why I wont do a set of BBM's or FElony heads. 2500 is out of my ball park.
Now if you, me, or someone else could pick up a set of new iron that worked somewhere between the FElonies and stock for around 550-600 each bare from a reputable source that would be a good thing all around. Better yet some one who is set up to cast 427 blocks they have the equipment and know how, all they would need is a new design and there are enough people to come up with a new head, not to mention other heads with quality's we could incorporate (Chevy LS platform wasn't the first to have a tall narrow port) If and again it is a big if such a company did they could somewhat offset the cost of the blocks. I think this would be the best option.
So why am I so passionate about this, for Pete's sake we do have a whopping number of 3 company's that make heads for small bore engines. well in the 8 days since this post started there have been 1463 people who have looked at this thread it you take the 38 members who voted so far and quadruple it that is 152 views that means 1313 people have looked at this thread. That is on average 163 additonal people a day. If (I know another one
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) only 5 percent would buy that is 8 people a day that is a definite market. Even if it was only 1 percent bought a pair a week that is 84 pairs a year x 600 that is 50k in the first year. After that if you want to run the old stuff all the power to you, if you want to run BBM"s or the like, more power to you. I hope you buy FElony and put the money where it should go. For me I would run the fast burn irons for around 1500 +/- a set, get 450+ hp not have to buy race gas to keep from sucking a valve and be more the merrier.
Chris I looked up the D5tz-6049-a and got a distributor I know the 6049 means a cylinder head but that is what I got.
Qikbbstang, I am not sure but the exhaust port would be critical and making it so vert and horizontal header mounting was possible would help install in the narrower shock tower cars.
BH107, Your right we have quite a few FE heads available, around here the early ones are getting harder to find. Probably because the people you mentioned who are picking them up by the pallet load see a market. Like my dad or older brother who simply want it to run. For them, these are perfect.