Technical 60s 235 head on 57 235 engine?

I have heard of people doing this and they said it worked very well for them .

Has anyone on here done this ?

What's the actual benefit ?

Is it just a bolt on direct swap?


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I'm thinking it is a bolt on swap. A bit of searching shows that heads with certain casting numbers were/are considered better potential for modifying to build a hot six. I'm not sure that there is any measurable performance advantage without mods though.
A local hop yard (yep grows the hops that go in your beer) used to have a fleet of about 50 Chevy AD trucks with 235 engines in set up to haul hops from the field to the kiln and all of them had 235 or 261 engines in them. At the time they used up a lot of the 235 style heads in this area when they cracked heads in them from sheer abuse by the guys driving them. They have a fleet of 80 something trucks now and the old trucks are gone. That used up most of the available 235 heads in this area.

 

Don't know by the comments, but if you're speaking of the "848" head, it will bump up the C.R. at bit.

 

should work fine, ask your local machinest!

 

I think this is what I was hearing about , thanks!


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