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Old 03-23-2022, 05:59 PM
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We were the first Pontiac retailer to look these heads over and I must admit, at the time we were planning on producing our own heads so I was very critical and kind of hoped they failed to pass our tests.
We Bought some heads and took them to the bandsaw, slicing into segments and sharing our results with the Pontiac world. Everything looked real good, but would they pass our other tests?
They not only passed, but they passed with flying colors! Tensile strength, alloy quality, virtual lack of porosity, quality of machining, quality of valves.
Here we had an affordable, quality head and a real challenger to the competition. But we still needed some real world performance tests.
We swapped the valve springs and bolted an as cast set straight for the box with ZERO bowl work or even port matching on a 455 I built for Kevin Werdal. 9.91 @ 2952 lbs! Many of you know Dave Hoover. Dave runs the a '64 Tempest with a stroker engine and a Vortec supercharger. He was having some coolant leakage with his ported Edelbrocks and needed a set of heads to run at No Problem Raceway in LA. I again swapped out the valve springs and only the valve springs on an as cast right out of the box set of Speedmasters and guess what? Dave ran the quickest he's ever ran, a 6.20 in the 1/8th and is now on his way to dipping into the 5s!
We have BIG plans for Speedmaster and Rick's assistance will serve us and the Pontiac World well.
STAY TUNED!

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