D8OE heads

[slayerripkdc]

hey i jsut ordered D8OE heads assembled and was wondering how good these heads are and what numbers will i eb looking at???? here are the specs of the heads

3 angle valve job
bronze wall liners
7 degree locks
chromoly retainers
1.90 x 1.60 ss valves
.550 lift springs
69 cc chamber volume
130 cc intake vlume
5.16 pedastil rocker

all for 699 dollors... my setup would be the

D8OE heads
Trick flow street mannifold
24 LB injectors
65 MM Throttle body
73 C and L mass air meter
Moroso cold air
and Borla exaust, off road pipe and shorty headers will i be lookign at close to 20 to the wheels????

 

[slayerripkdc]

do you guys think i would be close to 290 to the wheels??? with stock cam and rockers??? will it definetly be a 12 secong car with street tires and good driving?

 

[slayerripkdc]

do you guys think i would be close to 290 to the wheels??? with stock cam and rockers??? will it definetly be a 12 secong car with street tires and good driving? i also have 373s

 

[FoxChasis]

D8OE heads were on every 302 Mustang engine from '79-'84.

 

[jrichker]

Not as good as the E7TE that came on 87 or later 5.0 stangs. The combustion chamber volume is larger than the E7 heads and will drop your compression ratio.

 

[blown5.0]

yeh unless those heads are ported you got ripped for $699.

if they are ported then its a decent deal.

if the heads are ported good maybe 260 to the wheels, if the heads arent ported then you'll be lucky to see 240 to the wheels.

ah d08, d06, e7 there all the same stock crappers......

 

[FoxChasis]

'85 heads are E5AE and '86 heads are E6SE.

 

[dastang2]

those heads are from something that was made in 78, i have a set of them too in my garage with adjustable rockers. they don't have the thermactor bumps so that's good but more cc's is bad. but that can all easily be fixed.

 

[FoxChasis]

D8O = 1978 Torino.

Those very heads were on my '83 GT's block originally. '78 was the first year for pedestal mount rockers arms. The heads originally had Thermactor injection port 'bumps'.

 

[Ranchero5.0]

D8 heads were cast in the millions and used in everything, including 351w's in the early '80's and are worthless for performance. You got ripped my friend. Tiny ports, big chambers, not even a good emmisions head, and that's what they were designed as. They were fords redesign to lessen the cost of valvetrain components. Stamped bolt down rockers vs cast with studs etc. you can port them to flow about the same as stock P heads, maybe up to GT-40 stockers if you are carefull, but that's still playing in the shallow end of the pool.

 

[dastang2]

mine do not have thermactor bumps, maybe somebody had them redone but they look normal.