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Oct 27, 2003 | 11:08 PM

79CuZTuM

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D3VE heads.

Are they worth a ****? I've got D3VE heads on my 460 just went through them and rebuilt them, wondering if I could do better cheap or if they are a decent raceable head?

Oct 27, 2003 | 11:14 PM

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Been lots of discussion about D3VE versus D0VE in the 460 forum. Also tons of info on these heads themselves. Try a search there, if you don't find anything let me know, I can hunt it down for you

Came up with 6 hits right off the bat from the last month dealing with D3VE heads.

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Oct 27, 2003 | 11:20 PM

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Use them with a good flat top piston. You will get a better flame travel than if using D0VE heads and a dished piston.
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Oct 28, 2003 | 01:59 AM

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I've got my 460 bored.30,dished Silv-O-Lites,.585 comp cam, weind stealth, holley 750 Dbl pumper, msd 6-A, stock crank, Lunati roller rockers, MSD coil&distributor, Accel 8.8 330+'s, And havn't started the son of a bitch YET! I was wondering how much of a difference there would be if I went and found a good pair of old dove heads and had them gone through and maybe ported and polished if it would be worth the money or just porting and polishing the D3VE heads.

Oct 28, 2003 | 11:38 AM

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All that they will really do is raise your compression about 1.4. so if you are set up at 10.0 to 1, then you would have 11.4 to 1.
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Oct 28, 2003 | 11:52 AM

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Yea, a speedshop here in Spokane that specializes in Fords, said to go with the the D3 heads and flat tops-
BTW, what is the stock size of the valves in a D3 head?

Oct 29, 2003 | 06:38 AM

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Same as the rest of the regualr productions heads, including the early ones, 2.08/1.66.

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Oct 30, 2003 | 06:03 AM

georgedavila

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It was the weak design point on standard production 385s, to fit between shock towers on intermediate sized vehicles. Any assistance to the exhaust side, grinding off the smog bump, porting, headers, +10 degrees on cam duration, reaps big rewards.