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Old 11-25-2017, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by classical glass View Post
The car is a semi show car and driven only on the street.
For a street-only FE, getting the rocker geometry set right will have a greater impact on your long term happiness than the choice of aluminum heads (assuming you don't pick dogs). Out of the box Edelbrocks, with a little port matching and clean up, will give you way more horsepower than you'll ever need to kill yourself on the street. What you want is valve train reliability, and that doesn't come "out of the box."
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