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No its an old smog motor with dished pistons, very low compression, so will not be keeping hold of them either. Good news, the block is clean and its a 4 bolt main.

Read numerous articles and forums on these ally heads recently and the more you read the more confusing it gets. Plusses and minuses on all the heads whether Edelbrock and Trickflow from the USA or CHI and AFD from Aus. Getting very close to having to make a decision one way or the other

Could be wrong but it seems the early 351C 2v Trickflows were left behind a bit with performance and flow rates by the CHI and AFD. However the later Trickflows seem to be much improved with +300 flow rates similar to the AFD and CHI, would that be fair to say.

Whichever route I take I think I will stick with the 2v as opposed to the 4V as do not want to be messing around with intake spacers and the like.

I had a set of worked Aussie 2v quench on my first Pantera years ago with a 290 hyd flat tappet cam and the car was a pleasure to drive, but when you hit the pedal the low end torque was superb.

The car will never see a track only street so would not mind trying to replicate that performance. However I do like the idea of a roller hyd cam. Had a Ford Racing X303 on my 302 and again this worked superb with the Trickflows I had fitted.

Thanks for the info guys and happy thanksgiving over there today

Horace