1978 L48 HEAD FLOWS
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From: Living in the Hartland
Re: 1978 L48 HEAD FLOWS (masters)
Unless you are doing it yourself I would not waste the $ on it, get some aftermarket heads that flow better. The Vortec heads are great for the $ but you will also need a new vortec intake. Or even look for some alum L98 vette heads, can be had pretty cheap on E-Bay or even over in the C4 parts section.
[Modified by Fevre, 11:38 AM 5/12/2004]
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Drifting
Joined: Nov 2002
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From: Ontario
Re: 1978 L48 HEAD FLOWS (masters)
3 angle valve job will only noticeably improve flow at high RPMs.
If your looking at changing heads check this out
http://www.chevytalk.com/tech/engine/SBC_Heads.html :cheers:
If your looking at changing heads check this out
http://www.chevytalk.com/tech/engine/SBC_Heads.html :cheers:
Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2004
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From: Austin Tx
Re: 1978 L48 HEAD FLOWS (1979toy)
If you are going to change heads, I would go with an aftermarket DART, Edelbrock, Trickflow, etc, instead of better GM head. I know this because I put DART heads on my SB 406 on my boat and the perf jump was awesome. After I smoked the engine in a Poker run at 5300 rpm, I just went cheap and put some GM heads with 2.02/1.60 valves thinking since they were the same size valves and chambers as DART the perf would be the same...wrong.
