[ogasman]

I bought a set of the Edelbrock heads when I got tired of waiting for the Blue Thunder heads to come out. I was fairly underwhelmed. The casting quality was fair, and they are just copies of the 1960 medium risers (no improvements). I live in Ohio, and decided to give Dove a call. I had heard about the quality issues, and asked if I could come visit the plant to see for myself. They gave me the tour, and showed me some really cool toys. They also showed me a set of prototype heads they were working on. They are a set of high riser heads that were modified by Billy Glidden. They looked exteremely good, and I got on the list for a set. They will make the heads up custom for you, but the last time I checked they had some in stock.
I bought the first set they sold, and they are awesome.. I have seen the new Blue Thunder heads, and they will need a ton of porting to flow well. I returned the Edelbrocks, and never looked back. The casting quality on the Dove heads is better than the Edelbrocks, but probably not a nice as the B.T.'s. All of the bolt holes come helicoiled from Dove. All of the heads get treated with a special resin to eliminate porosity. All of the heads are pressure tested before they leave the factory. These heads are supposed to flow 420 intake and 320 exhaust at .700 lift. I have not flowed my heads yet, but I have no doubt about the flow numbers given by Dove. The heads out of the box have no equal in the FE world. They are that nice.
When I first met Jim Dove, I asked him about intakes for the heads. At the time they only had a single plane race type intake that was too high to run under a cobra hood. I said I really liked the tunnel wedge intake. Since that time he is ptototyping a tunnelwedge intake that has the carb height of the medium riser intake. It will clear under a cobra hood. It looks really good, and should be in production in a month or two. I am first on that list as well.
I haven't figured out how to post picture here yet, but I can email some pictures to you if you are interested (or if someone wants to post them here).


Paul