Aluminum cylinder heads..

mikes02ls1 · Mar 12, 2015

We know out on the market the 12 valve has a custom aluminum head, so does the Duramax. No love for the 7.3 powerstroke until now. I found someone who will take on the challenge of building custom high flowing aluminum heads for our 7.3 powerstroke.

PsdPullerJr · Mar 12, 2015

opcorn:

gwunter · Mar 12, 2015

With an option for easier mechanical injector drop in??

psduser1 · Mar 12, 2015

opcorn::ford:

Spatel23 · Mar 12, 2015

very informative/useful post OP

mikes02ls1 · Mar 12, 2015

I have to send him a set heads. This way he can get his info he needs to build a better flowing head. Its not cheap but I would love to have something to be different from everyone else.

dieselmandustin · Mar 12, 2015

So far all I have gathered from this is. Somebody somewhere is going to do some stuff with a set of heads.

cbf9703 · Mar 12, 2015

I'm curious to see what comes of this, but there are other people working on better flowing heads already... we can already get more air through aggressive porting, the challenge IMO is finding a way to raise the horsepower ceiling, not just broaden the power band and add more stress down low.

cbf9703 · Mar 12, 2015

dieselmandustin said:
So far all I have gathered from this is. Somebody somewhere is going to do some stuff with a set of heads.

Lol what else do you need to know? :shrug:

dieselmandustin · Mar 12, 2015

Can't think of anything else. Lol

bruce · Mar 12, 2015

Yes, so now now instead of 25k to make 750 horse, now you can spend 35k to make 800 horse. Sweet!!!

Arisley · Mar 12, 2015

gwunter said:
With an option for easier mechanical injector drop in??

Now if they could do this, it would change the game completely.

mikes02ls1 · Mar 12, 2015

The company is buildandtune.com in CT. Trying to give the powerstroke community more options on cylinder heads. Of if we get a bunch of people who want this the price obviously drops he said.

cbf9703 · Mar 12, 2015

mikes02ls1 said:
The company is buildandtune.com in CT. Trying to give the powerstroke community more options on cylinder heads. Of if we get a bunch of people who want this the price obviously drops he said.

Someone has to pay the price for R&D. Even then, once you've got one made it's not just telling us how much better it is or even showing on a flow bench that you're moving more air... it's proving real performance gains on actual trucks. Get a set done and show us the before and after dyno graphs, track times, something as a start.

mikes02ls1 · Mar 12, 2015

Yes I understand about R&D, and I will be the one to purchase and test it to see real world gains. Definitely want to see flow data on a fully built iron head to see if these numbers can be beat. If he can make the exhaust ports larger may require custom manifolds. Everything cost money, just have to have discipline to save up for the goodies I want unless I can win the lotto.

Hotrodtractor · Mar 12, 2015

Simply making the head out of aluminum doesn't do anything.

A new set of HEUI heads will have to be cast not machined to have the flow rates you are looking for at a cost point worth looking at. Lets not forget the machined billet 6.0 heads that cost an arm and a leg and flow terrible. (Name of the company escapes me at the moment).

Making mechanical injectors mount into a head is easy - its mounting the injection pump and all the supporting parts around it that is more difficult.

Hotrodtractor · Mar 12, 2015

I had to go back and look it up. West Racing. Back in 2012/2013 - and they had poor machine work with valves that didn't seal - both of which seem like solvable problems and yet they don't seem to be setting the world on fire in the 6.0/6.4 world. At the $8-10K a set I would think they would be awesome.

Also - air flow isn't the biggest issue - slow injection flow rates are.