[Formulajones]

Some are also missing the point of some of this.

What about a rare head like a 722 or 614? Or maybe a Pontiac that originally had a 389 with not so great heads that wants a bigger engine with better heads but likes the appearance of a stock 389? It could also be a cost factor when looking at some of those pricey RAIV parts. Especially when a lot of the Pontiac guys I've run across are some of the cheapest guys on the planet.

There are a lot of pretty good reasons to do something like this.

For instance, I've been casually looking for some 614's. However at current prices I'm not all that interested anymore.

Why would I pay $3000 or $3500 for 50 year old heads to build a clone I want to race, knowing I'd have to spend another $1500 or more going through them, and even more money for a good port job, just to get them up around 280 cfm, when I can just buy some round port Eddy's, disguise them well enough to fool most, even a Pontiac guru at a glance, and only spend $2500 maybe $3000, and have a head that flows 315cfm or more....?? I'd be a dummy to choose the first option for what I'm doing.

Given options like that I can bet what most Pontiac people would do.

This very scenario is why that first discussion of repopping some aftermarket heads with certain casting numbers came up in the first place. Unfortunately that whole discussion collapsed. Not because there wasn't interest, there were pages of interest, but the cost of tooling up something like this is more than anyone is willing to step up and do for such a small group of Pontiac loyalists. So we get creative That's what hotrodding is.