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FE Technical Forum / Re: Edelbrock head porting
« on: May 07, 2011, 08:52:45 PM »
Designate left and right heads, scribe each chamber through the cylinder block with the cyl bore, if it's a later 427 be sure to catch the valve reliefs in the cyl walls, then open up the chambers to your bores and pay attention to the walls in the chambers that are right up beside the In & Ex valves besides relieving them you can do a slight undercut in the wall by the seats. This undercut is said to allow the flow to start earlier and gain momentum at low valve lift. If you note in the stock ED heads the valves are partially blinded by the chamber walls until the valves are seriously open. Big valve swaps just make the problem worse. Someone here just stated that Ed Heads are not true M/Rs. I have a feeling they are a bit narrow on the intakes - do some searching for different Int gaskets and base your work from there. The Ed Heads obviously have a dam good designs in the ports as delivered, they were designed decades after FORD and with Eds offices full of port gurus. Keep in mind you want to enlarge but still maintain the stock profiles -- not being creative and hogging the hell out of them here or there. Obviously the valve guide support areas are a major impediment that you can spend plenty of time on.
Remember the Ed Heads were made to match up with 390 bores the bigger the bore the more need for relief.
JMHO
Remember the Ed Heads were made to match up with 390 bores the bigger the bore the more need for relief.
JMHO