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Originally Posted by fintstone
Hemi heads maybe?
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Fint for the win!
Yup, hemi heads for the small block Chevy. Made "at home, in his spare time". He made no more than a couple, maybe three sets (supposedly). He was employed by Chevy at the time as some "head of performance development" or something like that, but it's said that he made these in his own shop.
Interestingly, they are sand castings, not billet as we see in this modern age of CNC machining. So he had masters made around which the sand could be packed. I'm not sure anyone knows what happened to them. Imagine if someone made these today - should be easy to do, with the afore mentioned CNC technology available.
These were said to make darn near 500 hp on the 302. Not bad for the late 1960's.