Thinking of L92 heads for my lq4. Thoughts??
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The seller I bought it from off ebay said it was cathedral port and pics were cathedral. Bought it and got it and it was rec port so ended up keeping it and getting a rec port TBSS that's on now.
sorry to jack the thread.
hope more people chime in on this as I would like to know if its worth the money to swap over.
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Ported L92's, hell yes. Stock, not really enough for the hassle IMO.
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I made 455 with milled l92 on a 370. That's 14 more than what a guy had posted recently with a ported prc cathedral heads.. Made 670 on 7 cylinders on the bottle.. Id say they are worth messing with..
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Listen to Tyler. He has real hands on experience with these heads and obviously a lot of these guys don't. The cam you are running right now will work well with a rectangle port head. They typically don't like large cams without a healthy dose of nitrous. I ran stock LS3 heads on my 408 and it was a handful. But like stated earlier, you can buy stock rect heads for much cheaper than a port job for a cathedral port head. And then you have room for more power down the road.
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@jake and @tyler, thanks for confirming my thoughts on the l92 swap. One reason for this instead of ported cathedrals is the price as tyler mentioned. Now I just need to locate some mill em and slap them on.
My current setup is such a dog it pisses me off, I expected more. I believe this will do the trick.
My current setup is such a dog it pisses me off, I expected more. I believe this will do the trick.
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Sounds good.. For the money it's hard to make the power with a cathedral head like the rectangle port head will do... And if you wanted to spend the money money on ported heads, get the rectangle ports heads ported.. I believe skeet made close to 500 rwhp..
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The forged 370 I have in the Camaro put down 490rwhp (n/a) on a Mustang dyno with self-ported L92 heads. It should pick up about 20-30hp with the Vic Jr and Accufab throttle body.
The L92 heads work very well with the right combination but I do believe they are a bit more picky with cam selection. The huge intake ports tend to slow down port velocity at lower rpms.
Mike
The L92 heads work very well with the right combination but I do believe they are a bit more picky with cam selection. The huge intake ports tend to slow down port velocity at lower rpms.
Mike