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Originally Posted by petes67bird

Thanks. I went to my local shop yesterday and chatted about some things. His train of thought was that my compression may be lower than what I had previously thought (he thinks it may be closer to 9:1 or even upper 8's) which would adversely affect the cam I have that he feels would benefit from a higher compression above 10:1. His suggestion was that we can leave the cam where it is, I can install heads (he wants me to drop to 72cc Eheads that he will go through and change the springs on and get me near 11:1), and cleanup my intake and 750cfm carb (said it looks like my accelerator pump is leaking gas). He said this should raise my compression, add about 50-80 horsepower and he can then time and curve everything for me on his equipment. He personally did not like the #96 heads, he also said that all the Kauffmans he has flow tested have not reached advertised numbers, which is why he is wanting me to go with the Edelbrock. We ended up chatting for several hours while he showed me all of his work, great guy.

Well, now your moving up to a whole different game. A look at your drive-train can become an issue. Like transmission, U-joints, Yokes, Rear-end and axles to name a few. Headers, Carburetor, Exhaust. Hopefully you'll still make enough vacuum for your brake booster to operate your brakes properly. If your gonna move to E-Heads I'd personally build from scratch with all forged internals. That's just me. Good luck with whatever route you go.