Bully-flo Racing and Kevin Yates heads

[TommyGloves]

to prove the point, unlike everyone else....I haven't heard from Ktravesty in forever.

Talked to him the other day...he sold the Turbonnie and bought a VW Passat TDI.

 

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[DanJ]

TCG: we aren't going to reinvent the wheel

 

[Rent Free]

Soooo basically stop being dumb buy those heads because id need them to run the ST5 cam anyways throw turbo junk on caged car run it and not care what it looked like until it grenades a trans?

 

[1quick]

you dont need heads to run a st5 cam, just modded retainers and springs, my l26 made 522whp on stock heads with a st5 cam

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

To run a big cam all ya need is to grind down the grind about 3/16ths off the guides. Toss on lsx springs and hope the oem valves have no defects in the friction weld

 

[Rent Free]

See what I mentioned earlier I feel smarter already LOL!!

Thanks.

Guess Ill throw them heads on the other car then......

 

[Mattstrike]

I didn't need to modify the guides for my ST5, 1.7 rocker setup.

 

[Rent Free]

Ill have to post the link from the other site but quite a bunch of drama going on with Bully Flo heads.

Price gouging......

I'll get the link once Im off work. GPF is block on govt. computers.

 

[twinv6gtp]

This times a million billion. All this stuff is great and really the heads look phenomenal but there's entirely too many people trying to solve non-existent problems. You end up paying 50% more for a product that's 5% better.

From the standpoint of a vendor we sell almost no reinforced small block parts. Not that we don't offer them. They just don't sell. People know they're not needed. And the same goes with much of this other stuff. People aren't necessarily doing it better; they're just doing it different.

ZZP was smart by sticking their money where their mouth was. They shut the naysayers up because they put several cars out there that ran and ran well, they wore their failures on their sleeve and they told you what parts they ran and more importantly: what parts were unnecessary horseshit. Zooomer might have been a dick every step of the way but it doesn't matter. He told me once that people don't care if he's a dick so long as they know they can trust that what he says is accurate. And you know what, that's dead on because I was the nice guy with cheaper prices and ZZP cleaned my clock year after year in sales all the while person after person in the community swore they wouldn't shop with ZZP any longer. But I digress...

It is no coincidence that the biggest, fanciest builds also end up being the cars that disappoint the most. Keep it simple stupid. Stop with all the extra engineering. Build it simple enough to work and simple enough so that when it breaks (and it will break either way) you don't need to replace a completely custom setup that didn't solve the problem you set out to solve anyhow.

Awesome honest post. Rare to see on a forum.

I totally agree with the K.I.S.S. Method. It served me very well. Had fun for a small amount of money.

Still the most fun $ for $ was my 500$ GTP with small slicks and a turbo kit (that we reused in the twin engine car). 11.0 @ 127 mph everything else being bone stock, even the trans. Made like 8 events with it, never hurt the trans or the engine (with 160K miles and stock original HG)

 

[Rent Free]

@ Mike K

"You end up paying 50% more for a product that's 5% better."

Nailed it.........

Go big they say, It'll be fun they say....... Usually first ones to be parted out I say.

Just like the dude on GPF right now what claims his car will rot before he parts it out. Asking 9k for it..... I smell demod.........

 

[GTPpower]

I really don't understand the logic of Kevin Yates. Like $10k into a 3800 with a Gen 3 m90 that will probably run 12's when it's done in a few years. Whatever makes him happy I guess.

Chris Hinson has said a few questionable things online that really scare me, especially when he is considered an "expert" and lots of newbies are getting advice from him. He appears to be a thug, and has some interesting youtube videos talking about how a VS cam'd car will walk any turbo car on the street.

But, like Mike said, I really do wish that I would have kept it simple, instead of waiting for years to acquire every GMR and Cartuning part I could. I would have had a lot more fun with a basic turbo kit on my car that would trap 125 fairly easy versus spraying the shit out of it and hoping to get the hole shot on RWD cars so they wouldn't walk away from me on the big end.

 

[ZephTheChef]

I really don't understand the logic of Kevin Yates. Like $10k into a 3800 with a Gen 3 m90 that will probably run 12's when it's done in a few years. Whatever makes him happy I guess.

The guy has an unpainted cowl hood and a giant rear wing on his grand prix, and his engine is painted gloss white. That should explain all you need to know about him.

 

[Euro]

The guy has an unpainted cowl hood and a giant rear wing on his grand prix, and his engine is painted gloss white. That should explain all you need to know about him.

Seriously what the fuck, look at this ricer junk

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

why in the fuck would you want to paint an engine gloss white?

 

[ZephTheChef]

Beats the hell out of me.

 

[ZephTheChef]

Those are from his facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/kevinyatesracingengines

 

[Mattstrike]

561BHP!!!!

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

wat

 

[Rent Free]

Bronzemist is the fastest........

(my s1x E85 coupe is bronzemist)

I love the welds and the cowl and don't mind the white engine either.

 

[ZephTheChef]

Bronzemist is the fastest........

(my s1x E85 coupe is bronzemist)

I love the welds and the cowl and don't mind the white engine either.

But he has an intercooler, bro!

 

[Rent Free]

Ohh I said nothing about that trash.... belongs in the garbage.....

500 + hp my ass. Isnt the M90 record like mid 400's?

For damn sure not with that heaton.........

 

[Euro]

White engine pieces look great when clean, like valve covers/blower/etc. But not the whole fucking assembly

 

[Euro]

Someone should invite them here, that'd be fun for a Friday.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

it's pretty hard to find a place with an engine dyno adapter with the 60 degree bell housing.
without trans losses. .. I could see 500 ish