[Tony Radford]

h dog, I've been spending a fair amount of time lately on this issue myself. Go to the fordmuscle.com site. They have an interesting article on a small block Ford head shoot out. As I mentioned on a previous thread, I'm trying to decide as to whether I want to replace my TFS heads or not. I've concluded that my Twisted Wedge Heads are as good as I can get without changing the port profile (racing heads). Are you doing your own engine work? I've got Southern Automotive here in the Atlanta area doing my engine. Bill produces a 427 stroker as a standard product that makes pretty good HP while maintaining good street manners. He does a fair amount of port work on the heads beyond what comes with the head. The two head shoot out articles lead me to believe that the Edelbrock heads don't make the top of the list. I've written them off entirely. Fortunately for me, the Twisted Wedge heads are rated pretty highly. With all the addtional work that SA does to them, they should be OK. My concern at the moment is with my headers. I have the standard 1 1/2" tubes which (according to many opinions) are a bit restrictive for a stroker. Trying to upgrade these are tough and expensive. I'm beginning to believe that it's best not to understand this stuff, just drive the car and get off on the radical (though perhaps not optimum) performance.