cylinder heads.

my cylinder heads were made with small valves (1.94" intake and 1.50" exhaust valve) and i was also reading up that they made these head with restrictive air flow passages for lower end torque? anyways, thats no good for racing and i want bigger valves! huge valves! so a friend of mine told me to get heads off a chevy van, they have big valves and are higher compression. any input on this?

Try to find a set of Edelbrock heads. You won't be disappointed.

jjski78 wrote:

Try to find a set of Edelbrock heads. You won't be disappointed.

Definitely Edelbrocks. Have you made a choice on pistons yet? Been a while for me, TRW Forged Piston Sets seem to be the choice I'd make. They come balanced.

JacLynn

TRW's seem to be the standard for performance engines.

yeah, thats what i was looking into i beleive. i kinda wanna keep it under 1000 for forged pistons, crank and rods.

I think if this were mine and I had the money... I would go with a Isky roller cam and lifters. Crane Cams makes a great RV cam for the 350 that, from what I've heard, when idling and someone wants to race you, they think twice because of the sound the engine makes. A nice set of street headers will enhance that sound too.

all the RV cams that i can find are low rpm cams. they're power bands are like 1000-4500 or so?

That sounds about right considering in an RV you would want the low end grunt to get the mass moving. Which in a street/strip application would be great because it will give you a better launch off the line.