Well EC all you have to do is look at their website and they have some blown engines offered. A 1700HP engine that looks to be a billet RAV from the pic and a 2400HP blown Warp engine. As far as NA engines the only one I know about is a 900HP Warp engine that ran on pump gas. But get this, it was a 2000+ HP huffer engine that they were looking for a ignition miss with. So they took the blower off and slapped on a adapter for a carb on the blower intake and ran it. But it had a blower cam,giant zoomie headers and a blower cam. And still made 900HP. Done with a sheet metal 2x4 intake, NA cam and real headers it would have kicked down the 1000HP mark with ease.
I have not talked to a Kauffman in a year and a half. But they were trying to get the Warp head into casting back then. I do know the Dirty Birds head guy took one look at the Warp head and thought he do do a LOT with it.
What its all said and done that head will be the NA king. But its a BBC type custom race head on a Pontiac so its not really a Pontiac. It goes in excess of 500 cfm.
Now the "It and the D port is built on the back of the KRE heads " comment. Its as true as the day is long. KRE has had much greater success with that aluminum D port than anyone would have thought. I would bet they sell them 5-1 over HPs. Jim Butler told me himself he did not think there was any market for a aluminum D port head(very jealous). He said you just can not accelerate a crankshaft through those pinched D ports. Could not have been more wrong. If KRE was not having the success with their D port and HP does anyone really thing Edelbrock would be making these new heads? After all it was them who made us the original head and just sat back and raked it in for 20+ years. Charged us more for our heads vs the Olds and FE heads even though we bought WAY more of our heads. That Pontiac head taking off like it did was a VERY big surprise to Edelbrock.
KRE with the High Port took the Edelbrock head one step further. What they should have done a long time ago and they see what KRE is doing and want a part of it. And they are going to get it too. KRE did the tricks the the HP like the chamber, raising the port, basic things you would do to a sbc race had and made it. Sort of the ultimate RAIV head in aluminum.
This new aluminum D port head is going to be a winner too. Its is going to flow like a race ported iron head,260cfm as cast. And it looks like the Victor head is going to cool that center ex bolt like Langer and Rex are doing to Tigers stock.
Time will tell it these new heads will be able to do things the KRE heads can not. Sure KRE has made some mistakes, but I think they are over. The MR1 is every bit the block the IA2 is. And has larger oil passages than the IA2. And every IA2 has not been perfect either, but Bob and Frank have always made it good.
But now way on the face of the earth would Edelbrock be making 2 new heads on a 40 year dead engine if some dairy farming Pontiac nuts in Ohio were not crazy enough to start a company, make 5 different kinds of heads and 3 different types of blocks for the "dead" engine. We should "thank" them and not revile them.
Edelbrock would just sit back and let AP make the Tigers since they sell very few of them and were never a threat. And just sit back and make the RPM head, charge us more for it and rake in the cash.
It took KRE for them to see what they are missing.
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