My local shop has two sets of heads. They were pushing them on me Saturday. Looks nice, I'm sure they will put them on their flow bench to see what they are like.
My plan was to maybe do a freshen up on my motor. I did a compression check on it the other day and got 210-230# on all 8 holes. Sounds solid. I have an oil pan leak so it needs to come out and fix that. I'm going to look at a few bearings and if all seems well I am not going to tear it down. I have 4 seasons on it, plus 34 dyno pulls.
With no full rebuild cutting into the budget, I MIGHT look at upgrading my antique Ed's with a new set of TF's. My Ed's were just hand worked when I bought them in 1996. They flowed 280/220 on Fox Lake's flow bench. That is what Barry's heads flow out of the box. I can spend $1000 to get mine CNC'd or just upgrade to TF's. I can sell my Ed's or maybe upgrade the blower car with better heads?(not that a blower needs it). It's been 16 yrs on that 390, and it has a few leaks so maybe I need to pull it and tinker with it?
No money for a big roller cam upgrade, still have to run my old flat tappet. Not sure if the power increase is worth the money? We'll see after I get the motor out sometime soon. Clutch needs a freshen up. That won't be bad, I already have a new disc from last year's winnings if I need it.
