Porting Edelbrock 6037 heads, Thoughts?
 

I have a small oil leak from my head gasket that want to fix. While the heads were off I was thinking of having them ported. Would it be worth it to gasket match and give them a general clean up, I m also going to send in my Cobra lower if I do it. I also think that my valve springs might be getting weak, so I'll replace them too.Is there much power gain from doing this will it be worth the time and money.

The heads are where you make all the power and if ported properly yes it will make a worthwhile difference.

DO IT!!! But make sure you take the things to a quality shop that has reputable workers and equipment. You will get large power gains and should help your ET a lot!!!!

I also have a set of Edelbrocks that I wanted gasket matched...the machinist laughed at me. Apparently, Edelbrock heads are already matched pretty well to the gaskets. The Felpro 1250 intake gasket and 1415 exhaust fit pretty well.

If you're talking about porting and bowl work, then yes, it will help as long as you have the right combination of parts. You will probably lose some port velocity which will kill power down low, but your gears are good so hopefully you can get into the power band sooner.

Yeah, I'd get them cleaned up but maybe not go overboard. That's just me though.

Actually as long as he does not get too carried away with the port size he should not loose any bottom end, in fact he will probably pick up in the whole rpm range. It depends on what he has done. I would just recommend having the heads ported but don't get too carried away with it. Maybe an econo port or a stage 2 port job at most unless you want to move your power up high and loose a little low end.

Mine are ported and polished. They work pretty well. I want to move up on the flow numbers , so I will be taking mine off and flow benching them to make a compairison.