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I know, I know buy afrs or TW heads.... Have a couple of those on other cars but doing a complete budget build on a beater so its getting the cheap ####. I got a set of bare casting that are pretty much copies of the dart pro 1 head. There sold by tons of shops under private labels threw proheader, rpc, liberty, blue print ETC...Same casting you see on ebay with the double drilled exhaust advertised as cast 180-195cc with 64-60cc chambers depending on who's selling them. there china heads, not procomps but still china castings. There a diecasting and pretty decent from the set I have and the info I can find on them Its a pain to find info on them because everyone lumps the china heads as the old pro comp casting and sbc out sells sbf like crazy, found a lot more info on the sbc asain casting of this head.
For what I paid, I didn't expect much but what I got made me want to see what else is out there on the cheap end for SBF heads. Plan for them so far is a basic SS 2.02/ 1.60 valve, real light port work just cleaning up the bowls and casting. Arp studs, afr adj guide plates & Lunati 73925k2 kit for the valve train. I'll be into them for less the I could find any decent used inline head for or even get bare casting buying new. Should end up being a decent budget head with .650" capable valvetrain. There going on a 347 replacing e7te's someone put on it..
So what other heads are out their with china made clones and what have you seen used or used your self?
You have procomp heads everyone knows, which was vic jr based, some had issues with the heads no clue if they every fixed the casting but they still sell them under speedmaster and who ever else imports them.
flotek the gt40 based heads, not really a fan of the head it was based off of since I had an set of X heads years ago.
RPC, Proheader, liberty etc, dart pro 1 based casting
the SVE and promaxxx stuff looks like its based off the performer/ E street series heads.
The old patriot freedom heads before promaxx bought them out where based of the afr 185 head
Saw some facbook posts recently that looked like there is another afr clone head being shopped around and for as cast, in the few pics and the testing they posted it looked very good.
any Asian heads I missed you want to add or any you had had experience with?
For what I paid, I didn't expect much but what I got made me want to see what else is out there on the cheap end for SBF heads. Plan for them so far is a basic SS 2.02/ 1.60 valve, real light port work just cleaning up the bowls and casting. Arp studs, afr adj guide plates & Lunati 73925k2 kit for the valve train. I'll be into them for less the I could find any decent used inline head for or even get bare casting buying new. Should end up being a decent budget head with .650" capable valvetrain. There going on a 347 replacing e7te's someone put on it..
So what other heads are out their with china made clones and what have you seen used or used your self?
You have procomp heads everyone knows, which was vic jr based, some had issues with the heads no clue if they every fixed the casting but they still sell them under speedmaster and who ever else imports them.
flotek the gt40 based heads, not really a fan of the head it was based off of since I had an set of X heads years ago.
RPC, Proheader, liberty etc, dart pro 1 based casting
the SVE and promaxxx stuff looks like its based off the performer/ E street series heads.
The old patriot freedom heads before promaxx bought them out where based of the afr 185 head
Saw some facbook posts recently that looked like there is another afr clone head being shopped around and for as cast, in the few pics and the testing they posted it looked very good.
any Asian heads I missed you want to add or any you had had experience with?
