[Tony Radford]

Mike, I'm getting the heads, intake and timing cover polished and going with an Edelbrock polished, high-volume water pump. Bill will send the intake (post porting), timing cover and water pump (I'm having the Edelbrock trade mark removed from the pump) to the polishers before I take my car in to have the engine removed. If I use my existing TFS heads, the engine will have to be removed and the heads tweaked by Bill's guys prior to sending them to the polisher which equates to extended downtime. He has offered to trade me a pair of the Edelbrock heads with factory polish so that I don't experience the downtime. I'm just wondering if I'm giving up performance by trading my TFS heads for the Edelbrocks in the interest of limiting downtime. In addition to limiting the downtime, I come out a few dollars ahead by getting the pre-polished Edelbrock heads as opposed to paying to have my TFS heads polished. The real question is whether or not there is any noticable difference in the head performance since SA is doing additional porting and polishing anyway.

Wilf, going with a set of racing heads is not an option as I don't want to replace my headers. The TFS "R" and AFR 205s have non-standard exhaust ports. I'm probably making a big deal out of nothing, but it's now or never!

I won't even get into the carburetor issue.