For F.A.S.T., IF the Ram Air V head was allowed, it would certainly be competitive. The two major stumbling blocks for the head have been eliminated and ARE legal in F.A.S.T. You are allowed to make the engine much larger than stock, which would greatly help the head. Also, you can run any camshaft profile you want. Both of these allowances would make the Ram Air V a great head for this class.
This being said though, these heads will never be legal for F.A.S.T. for the reasons already mentioned. Also if they were, original castings only would have to be used according to the rules, and now you are talking about museum piece castings only. Then 20K + to make them competitive. So if a 30K set of heads scares you, this is not a class you would want to race. A good friend of mine runs a SSB Hemi Plymouth and this type of investment is necessary to play with the big boys on a national level in NHRA. I would expect F.A.S.T. to be similar. Now if the DCI or McCarty versions would be legal, that could be a game changer. But that will never happen. Running as good as they do with true production iron is just fantastic enough for me. These are great cars.
|