never finished
05-13-2000, 07:41:00 PM
Trying to identify the cylinder heads on my small-block '78 Z. The last three numbers are 260. Neither I nor anyone I know has ever heard of this number. Almost nothing on this car is original, and I doubt any part of the motor came with the car. I didn't build the motor, but I have had the intake off for a cam change, and the intake ports seem very large, and the car responded very well to the bigger cam. Anybody heard of this number?
tom3
05-14-2000, 10:25:00 PM
These heads use the big spark plugs, 13/16 inch socket with metal ring gaskets, or the small 5/8 inch socket plugs? That's a starting point to ID the heads.
never finished
05-15-2000, 07:23:00 PM
These heads use the small 5/8 plugs. R43t I think. I neglected to mention that the compression must be pretty high, since no amount of timing voodoo wwill make it run on regular gas. I would suspect the heads might be 305 pieces, but it runs perfectly on premium fuel. (no ping) Now that I've said it, I wonder if I've ever had a motor that ran perfectly. Probably not. Thanks for the help.