Only half of those mods are "performance"
And I think Ed will agree that Extrude honing is not the way to port our heads.
Even though that list says "flowed" he doesnt have any flow information or was not willing to share because I dont think he wants to be embarrassed because the heads were ported improperly. He feels that because the service was expensive and that extrude hone is a large company, that they must have done a good job.
He also says that he stayed with stock size valves. So he extrude honed all the ports massively larger and then went with stock size valves.
There is a lot more power to be made there with proper mods. That was also a "new engine" tune and his camshaft is very conservative.
It wouldnt be hard to get 40+whp more out of that engine with bigger cams and better heads from Ed. He has engine management so he doesnt need to stick in our 3000-5500rpm powerband. He doesnt really want to change cams because his are billet RPW cams that cost about 1000 bucks and who knows if he would like the powerband of a new cam.
He did have a problem with one of the idiot mechanics that worked on his car overreving his motor (who knows how high) and destroying the lifters. That makes me feel good because the rockers were not destroyed and Frank had thought that they were a weakness at high rpms.
That basically means anyone who wants to test the rpm limit of the 3.0 would
probably just face replacing some lifters and then they would know how high their motor could handle reving (assuming you make enough power there to be worth it).
Anyways, almost doubling the hp of a motor n/a with mild cams and bad heads is pretty impressive.
And yes, it is massively overbuilt for n/a purposes. He could throw a 400 shot of nitrous on there most likely and have few problems.
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