proven combo's

[rwhite65]

well, I have recently bought a freshly rehuilt (.20) over 92 5.0 H.O. engine. the current engine in my car is a 74 302 (.30) over but has dished pistons, so the compression is not as I as I would have liked it to be. The heads are 69 or 70 castings 302 with larger stainless steel valves, but with no porting. I bought the heads during my younger days when I believed bigger was better.

I have been watching on here and have been impressed with the results everyone has gotten by carefully choosing their combos, many times using stock e7's. So, here is the question.
The fresh H.O. motor, with e7te's ported and polished, and a stock cam with a performer rpm intake and 600 holley 4 barrel. OR do I put the bigger valves in the e7te's and run an alpha cam....mild one, but bigger then stock. I have considered the gt40p's, but then have to change my exhaust around, so the price goes up significantlly for that head swap. I see no benefit of running my earling casting head's, do to what I have read showing that the e7te's are a better design.

I know a set of aluminum aftermarket heads are the thing to do, but not this year, I aslo have a restored truck and my dirt bike to take care of.....so a little at a time. I would be very happy to get the car into the mid thirteen's, but not sure if this will do it. Kinda need the car to rev fairly high, cause the car is revvin hard with the 4.10's as I cross the line in third.

the combo will be bolted to my current setup- built aod, shift kit, 2800 stallion, 4.10's trac loc, full length headers to 2 1/4 exhaust, fully funtional ram air (almost finished), electric fan set-up, power pullies, and maybe an electric fuel pump. The car weighs around 3100 pounds with me in it.
thanks all for your help with this combo,
Ryan