32 valve heads

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What is this 32 valve head for. Are you looking for someone to help you find a newer one or a rebuildable one? Just stating that you need a 32 valve head dosent point us in a very clear path. thank you

http://www.araoengineering.com/

Please excuse my lack of info. The 32 valve heads are for the small block chevy. I'm interested in complete sets, rebuildable or parts. I have 2 sets now, 1 Dominion and 1 Arao even though they are the same units, just different eras. I saw that kazoom has bare castings that I was interested in. Big block also, what ever is available. The brand doesn't matter either, Weslake, Thunder power, Dominion, Arao. Sorry if i'm rambling but this is the first time i've ever posted to a forum and I just can't wait for an expanded availability of these parts.

What are your goals? IMHO, unless this is a show car deal where eye candy is the appeal, there's just not enough advantage in 32V heads w/the possible exception of low lift flow to justify the complexity, expense and possible issues w/repair and replacement parts.

If it was me, I'd be more concerned w/getting a decent choice in cams for the 32V set-ups than the heads themselves. There's much less advantage to the 32V heads unless the cam is designed from scratch to be used w/a 32V head. Wouldn't matter on a show/drive-in vehicle nearly as much than if the engine were being built to actually perform.

The 4 valve heads are so much superior to the 2 valve heads that there is no comparison. Yeah if the budget runs to it go for the 4 valve setup..Just ask how come the OEM's are going with 4 valve heads in spite of the extra expense..

Sam

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I have tried most all of it and now do what is known to work..

Emissions compliant small displacement OEM's aside, the manufacturers- w/the exception of Ford- are still making plenty of power w/2 valve pushrod configurations. When talking about a cast iron large displacement pushrod V8, I see no overall advantage to an aftermarket 4 valve head- as currently produced and marketed- when everything is weighed. The way to do a 32V V8 is to use OHC, IMO. YMMV.

Hell Im 30 and Ive seen literally 1 set in person...one. And the Syracuse Nationals is one of the biggest street rod car shows on the East Coast. Im at the dragstrip almost every weekend in the summer; never seen a set their either.

IMO its a whole lot of infomercial hype for the indoor car show guys. You want a multi valve setup? Buy a Northstar or a Ford Mod Motor and be money ahead

Its ever been the best for power but some people just like to be different. I don't really see why they would do an sbc and "try to be different" but some people are like that.

The Ford Coyote is the shizitz, IMHO. I can see it being a viable platform well into the future. Once the aftermarket is fully on board, they will be a killer swap. The only thing is, I don't see any of the latest generation powerplants being used w/o an ECM and/or EFI- at least not w/the currently available systems, being as how they all have VVT and variable displacement, etc. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it does add complexity and cost over a simple distributor and carb. At least there's advantages to using those systems over an HEI and carb.

One of the newer high-end rod shops took a Coyote 5L and put a multi stack EFI setup on it. It took a lot of hand fab and milling machine work; but they did it. Not sure about things like 'driveability' and other useless things the magazines tend to embellish.
Hell Id be happy with one of these new 300hp V6s with a stick. Theres a guy around here with a blown v6 mustang 2010 or 11; it sounds really grumpy and probably outperforms most of the de facto cruise-in cars with a lot of room to spare.

Edit: It was Hollywood HotRods; for the Raybestos company

Heres a vid of it from the Hot Rod Mag site:

http://www.hotrod.com/multimedia/ho...gine-firing-up/

It idles like it would be fine on the street. I recall seeing part of that build on TV, unless I'm mistaken. Sweet truck.

I've been working with 4 valve heads on 400 sbc's for 10 years now and i'm hooked. Naturally aspirated they make rediculous power and have a sound all their own. My latest project is a 32 valve 400 chevy with twin Presicion T88's in by Buick GN. pics to follow.

Hi rockster, I just logged on and got your pm, I will email you also. It is always great! to meet others into the 4 valve pushrod tech which has been around and proven to work since approx 1915?.

I will repost some info/tech/pics here that some of you that are interested in this type of multi valve tech will find intersting.

A bit of history, most dont know there are a good few diffrent versions of pushrod multi valve heads out there, this 4v pushrod tech has been around on american Harley and Indian race bikes since the early/mid 1900's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEZ...feature=related


More recently Mr Feuling remade 4 valve pushrod heads for the/our old HD tractor engines, Vtwin racers like McClure and others have also proven the Feuling design 4 valve pushrod/forked rocker tech has worked great for years, The Zodiac race bike has been ripping off 6.60's using this 4v tech as an example...

http://www.zodiac.nl/dragrace/index2.htm


a pic of mr McClures 4Cam 4Valve Feuling/Rivera billet version head Vtwin race bike, I believe he was doing 6.40's with this 4V tech.



Mr Feuling also used modded versions of these same HD pushrod heads on a little 135ci vw engine and the thing made over 400+HP... and this was with a even more complicated intermediate rocker box...

http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?topic=10891.0


Imo the 4v Feuling head marketing was also really screwed up at the begining by pushing it on the 700 pound evo big twin crowd, it should of been marketed to the xl/sportster crowd right off the bat as the these 4v heads could of really shined on a xl 4 cammer. The racers knew what to do with them but they were not interested in sharing tech but in winning races. Imo the product suffered because of the wrong people involved. Imo Feuling sold the rights for these 4v heads to the wrong guys that imo were more interested in being millonares than having the product in right hands of true enthuiests that could have/would have tinkered with them. I got a great respect for mr Feuling, he has done some very cool/trick things, if he was still around I am sure we would have even more 4v stuff out there.



Imo, think that usa industry politics has alot to do with why 4v tech has been so far behind in the usa compared to other parts of the world... as 4V tech has been a great commercial success in other parts of the planet. Since mr Feuling and his R&D died it seems like only small guys like arao, dominion, hotdock, krauser and others have just been just plugging along with there shoe string budgets keeping this type of 4V pushrod tech alive I guess.





Some other examples of this 4v pushrod tech are from Hotdock in japan with a trick 4 valve pushrod deal.

http://www.hot-dock.co.jp/title1.htm


Another trick old pushrod 4V design came from europe/Krauser for the bmw.

http://www.michael-krauser.de/engli...story01_e.html#