R302 Block

i am running a AFR 225 setup with a windsor stroked to 427. Roller cam setup. They work great. Cannot comment on a smaller cube setup like a 366 cid.

General comment, the larger the CFM the greater the top end charge but giving up low end torque. If low end power is your game, go with the 185 CFM heads.

Ron,

you know me, I don't like wrist pins intersecting the oil ring grooves, so my recommendation is 355 cubic inches, which is 4.155" bore & 3.25" stroke.

which heads will depend upon what powerband you want to give this bitchen little motor. I don't keep up with the Windsor world real well, but I would recommend either AFR or Trick Flow heads. Of course, new heads come on the market continuously, and Richard Holdener seems to run the Windsor world, so use whatever he is pushing at the moment! lol.....

George

Ron,

I ran across a stroker kit today using a 5.3" rod for the little Windsor motor, which allows a 3.4" stroke crankshaft without the wrist pin hitting the oil ring groove. That's 369 cubic inches dude! Rod length to stroke ratio is still 1.55:1.

I wasn't aware of the 5.3" rod, I thought the stroker kits all ran 5.4" rods.

George

george I totally agree ! stay out f the oil ring, I found a guy with some new parts, but another question ? what are twisted wedge heads ? He sending me a list, hes a Ford Engineer out of Detriot liquidaing his inventory. Hes got a couple new SVO blocks crank and heads. Let me now if yo need anything he is gong to end a list. He says hes gettingold and tired of the projects. Hes got a couple new Moledex cranks I have to check the stroke.

Ron,

Twisted Wedge heads are manufactured by Trick Flow for Windsors, SBC, they are not side canted like Cleveland heads, but the valves are not in line either. The heads are pretty good out of the box, and better with porting. The AFR heads, which use plain old in line valve geometry, normally beat them in head to head testing. So is the twisted wedge really any big advantage? I would buy AFR heads with my money. Or FRPP heads. To the best of my knowledge quality control with the twisted wedge heads is spotty. Spotty quality control with aluminum parts raises a big red flag with me, because if they cheap out on the finish work, they probably cheap out on the choice of alloy and on the heat treating too.

I would love to see that list of parts when you get it, you know where I'm at!

your friend on the DTBB, George

George I checked it out and the AFR 205's really appear to be most suitable for my RPM range.... I gotta get a price on them and see which manifold I want to use....I'm still stuck on those webers... I have them for the Cleveland .. maybe I just need to pick up another manifold .. eh !!

Ron

Perhaps you havn't seen these yet? are they too new?

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryD...ryId=10187&langId=-1

http://www.jegs.com/photos/jegskaase.html

I was real excited to see these come out, but would be likely an wasted overkill in my boat...

Not certain if their claims are substantiated yet, but if I were building a hyper Windsor, they would be a consideration warranting invesigation. I thought there would be some buzz about them by now from the guys who like to rev, but I don't browze the other ford/mustang/cobra forums regularly...

Time for Richard Holdener to do another shoot out!

lol....................

George

Good info, PTA. Thanks for sharing.

Michael