[QUOTE=PontiacJim1959;6261816]Where is the STFU emogee? I am still looking for the post where the OP said he was building an all out high end race engine and sparing no expense? Hmmm. I have a set of the "Chinese" heads and they look great. Far cheaper than the out of the box E-heads and my purchase is simply for use on a street car, not a race engine.
Are these heads perfect out of the box? Are any of them? Any assembled aftermarket head should be broken down and examined. One reason I got the bare heads as I will prep/assemble them to my specs. Could they use some clean up port work? I think that depends on the user and his/her intent on the use of the heads. Stock cast iron heads can use some clean up port work to greatly improve them, but does everyone do that?
I did do a web search to see how many complaints and bad reviews there were on the Speedmaster heads - Pontiac and others. Really didn't find anything that would cause these heads to fall into the "junk" list or "don't waste your money." If they were crap, the complaints would be all over the assorted forums and no one would be buying them. But to the contrary, they got good overall reviews that did point out that these heads all could use some bowl clean-up/blending which was easily done with a sanding roll and not a lot of time involved.
But once again, it is so easy to arm chair your opinion and sound like an expert on heads when you have not even purchased, let alone worked with, a set of Speedmaster heads. When you actually purchase a set, do all your fancy work to them (or pay someone else as I am sure you do), and provide real world dyno numbers either supporting or negating their use on the ultimate build, otherwise STFU.
Thank you to the OP for sharing. Very encouraging and others who buy American will also be thanking you because it'll bring the cost down of those who had thought they had the market share on aftermarket aluminum Pontiac heads and were over pricing them.[/QUOTE
Emoji.s are for girls.
Chi Com heads TTFMFER !
The OP did say the quality was better than E heads. Cheap 400 $ heads better than the beast heads from the best made in America company ??
That will be the day.
I hope you build turns out great.
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