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DCI RAM AIR V CYLINDER HEADS
Just found these online while messing around. They are pretty proud of them price wise but it looks like you could build an interesting street motor in the 455 or larger category if you had the coin. Looks like you could roll a tennis ball thru those ports.
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I’d like to have a set myself. My understanding is there’s still a good bit of custom work that has to be done. No off the shelf headers, missing water cross-over. I’m not sure how difficult getting the correct pattern cam would be.
Don has posted some pretty impressive pump gas numbers to DCI’s Facebook page though.
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There is allot of information in the race section about these heads. The "cool" factor is off the charts with Ram Air V heads. Making the change requires a special cam because of valve layout, Intake manifold and there are no exhaust manifolds. So custom headers also required. So the heads and associated valve train are just the beginning. It would be an eye popping, tongue wagging crowd when you opened the hood for sure. My 62 Catalina may have a set in it's future.
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NOT for the weak of wallet!Tom
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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Not exactly for street engines in my not at all humble opinion.......
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. 1970 GTO Judge Tribute Pro-Tour Project 535 IA2 http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=760624 1971 Trans Am 463, 315cfm E-head Sniper XFlow EFI, TKO600 extreme, 9", GW suspension, Baer brakes, pro tour car https://forums.maxperformanceinc.com...ght=procharger Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKAS...ature=youtu.be |
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GTO George |
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Now I'm curious, will have to look deeper! .
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. 1970 GTO Judge Tribute Pro-Tour Project 535 IA2 http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=760624 1971 Trans Am 463, 315cfm E-head Sniper XFlow EFI, TKO600 extreme, 9", GW suspension, Baer brakes, pro tour car https://forums.maxperformanceinc.com...ght=procharger Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKAS...ature=youtu.be |
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Wow, those as-cast flow numbers are in wide port edelbrock territory.
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this put many a 426 Hemi, on the trailer, in NASCAR, for years...
how bad can it be ? you can't argue with success. the problem with the internal combustion engine is this, we get sidetracked debating over the best way to move gas in/out of the cylinder, and ignite it, and push the piston down, and open/close the valves with optimum timing, when all that really matters, is spinning the crank. if you could take a Pontiac bottom end, eliminate the top end completely, and just spin the crank magnetically, you don't need all that top end nonsense anymore. it's literally going to hell to light a match. the object is spin the crank. not move, and burn gas. yet 90 percent of the focus is on the top end. 1000 years from now, people are going to look at V8's in museums, and say, can you believe they actually drove this POS around every day ? Last edited by GTO-relic; 09-17-2022 at 05:57 AM. |
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Not a tennis ball, but a Golf ball and 3/4s!
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Wernher Von Braun warned before his retirement from NASA back in 1972, that the next world war would be against the ETs! And he was not talking about 1/8 or 1/4 mile ETs! 1) 1940s 100% silver 4 cup tea server set. Two dry rotted 14 x 10 Micky Thompson slicks. 1) un-mailed in gift coupon from a 1972 box of corn flakes. Two pairs of brown leather flip flops, never seen more then 2 mph. Education is what your left with once you forget things! |
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Those are not DCI Vs or intake. That is McCarty Racing components in the pictures you posted.
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I was thinking that Don has someone doing headers, dougs maybe??
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According to his site, he has mad dog doing headers. I do also believe that his intake will fit under many stock hoods.
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-Jason 1969 Pontiac Firebird |
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I could be wrong but I thought that was something that Don had said early on - they had the choice of making it fit in stock configurations or not and had decided due to performance to not worry about it.
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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That may be correct. I know I had seen something to the effect that they were at least trying for that.
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ps- I saw Joe Mondello's name mentioned.
FWIW, that's who did all of Big Daddy Garlits' TF cylinder heads. Mondello was a class act. I liked his porting advice. "you're going to do 2 things. make the ports wider, and taller." genius is simplicity. any idiot can complicate something. What did Don Johnston do to the RA V heads when he redesigned them ? He raised the intake and exhaust ports. He gets it. |
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that was a mighty quick reply, for an old revived thread...
I'm not the one that replied to it so fast... the future of this hobby, will be putting electric motors in vintage GTO's and Firebirds. to drive them legally. because they're trying like hell to outlaw the gasoline engine. and these are very powerful people doing this. not that I want it...but they own all the banks and oil companies. |
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