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Originally Posted by Fasterthanyou
Welcome. You probably don't remember me but years ago we met at Fudds off of rt.22 where you pulled a single 32v sbc head out of the trunk of your ?white cutlass? and ploped it on the hood. You then told me about a project regarding TBI and a big displacement motor you had in the works. Never heard back from you but I can still tune a thing or 2 with TBI  .
Are the Dominian heads now http://www.araoengineering.com/?
I've been eye balling them for a LONG while. Before you showed me that head. I've done some research and from simulation work it looks like 800+hp n/a on pump gas isn't far fetched for a 434cu sbc.
Anyways, glad you're here and stiring up trouble. We just had a thread about how soft we all are with each others feelings.
If you want to be talking trash about some of the out of staters you need to check your garage. Last time I checked the site was NJFBOA, the FBO standing for F-Body OWNERS... :P I could be very wrong and eat my own words, but I'm getting the impression that you don't own one 
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Welcome. You probably don't remember me but years ago we met at Fudds off of rt.22 where you pulled a single 32v sbc head out of the trunk of your ?white cutlass? and ploped it on the hood. You then told me about a project regarding TBI and a big displacement motor you had in the works. Never heard back from you but I can still tune a thing or 2 with TBI

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I remember you. You were the technogeek {I say that with respect!} who was about to head back to college, right? I was interested in a non carb fuel system for the 455 TA I had at that point, but I ended up selling the car w/o following the TBI path. It prolly would have been a nice project if I ever got around to it.

And by speaking to you it did seem like your knew yer TBI stuff. 8)
Are the Dominian heads now
http://www.araoengineering.com/?
I've been eye balling them for a LONG while. Before you showed me that head. I've done some research and from simulation work it looks like 800+hp n/a on pump gas isn't far fetched for a 434cu sbc.
Yup, Dominion and Arao are one in the same. Russ Arao is the name of the builder, and he used the Dominion name at first to market them, and then put his own name on them. These heads are an urban legend, icon, enigma, and murder mystery all rolled into one! AFAIK, there hasn't been a successful use of them brought to light, nor a whole bunch of them out there. Every now and then a story told to a friend of a friend pops up about their use, such as some guy in {insert Western state of choice} has a set up and running on a {insert cubic inch size of choice}, and it is turbocharged, supercharged, N20 injected, propane injected, runs on H20, has dual carbs, TBI, TPI, E-I-E-I-O, and also is a diesel. It made {inset high horse power number of choice} on the dyno, but kept blowing headgaskets. Or something like that!
My heads are now in what I'm basically calling an "R&D" stage. The engine builder I am working with is checking the flow dynamics, and is working in conjunction w/ an established mechanical engineer to thoroughly study the mechanical end of things, such as the valve train, spring sizes, valve angles, oiling, etc. If any changes are deemed necessary they will be made. As of this point they aren't too impressed with the cast rocker shaft set up, so something more fitting may be built. Additional porting may also be done, and then the final configuration can be determined. I want as close to 1,000 hp as possible, and if the LT1 lower end is used, the amount of cubic inches will be limited to a 396 CI configuration. So, I see a supercharger in my future.

If we decide to go with an aftermarket block, I would prolly be looking at a 434-460 CI configuration. Then we may just have to go with as nasty of a n/a combo we could come up with.
Anyways, glad you're here and stiring up trouble. We just had a thread about how soft we all are with each others feelings.
"Feelings...nothing more than FEELINGS!" Screw the P.C. and "nicey nice" B.S. If people can't take what is coming out of unstable bob's or anyone elses cyberpiehole, they should shut off the dayum glowing eye and go join a convent. Dayum, soft, mushy, girlymen!
If you want to be talking trash about some of the out of staters you need to check your garage. Last time I checked the site was NJFBOA, the FBO standing for F-Body OWNERS... :P I could be very wrong and eat my own words, but I'm getting the impression that you don't own one
Oh, so now Four Eyes wants to puff up his caved in chest and try to end this with a bit 'o smack! Well, Melvin, since you are such a beaker flashin' max zoom college man, I know you can read. And the NJ in NJFBOA stands for NEW JERSEY! And the NJ comes before the FBO. And, before ya get your slide rule all sweaty, riddle unstable bob THIS: how many peeps on this board have OPENLY admitted to not owning F bods? MANY! PLUS this is the lounge area, which is OPEN TOPIC! Which means ANYTHING GOES! It ain't rocket science to figger' out that means NON-F BODY stuff as well. And we seem to be in the lounge there, Gilligan. SO:
M C Squared = SHUT YER DAYUM PIEHOLE, JABRONIE!
And as far as yer "impression" about unstable bob not owning "any" F bodies: Well, YER WRONG, DR. {Frank}Einstein. unstable bob has a few f bods floating around the ranch. And before you want to try and make it a great riddle of the Sphinx, let me cut yer thought process down by mentioning that maybe unstable bob's F bods are in a scale other than 1/1!