does anyone know what cars they put the vortec heads on any help would be cool thanks

 

Now I'm not the GM *** on this subject, But I think Vortecs only came in 96 and up Pickups. The vortecs are a standard flow version of the LT1 head. So the vortecs were not used in cars.
Later
John

 

If you can get to swap meets, there a supposed to be tons there for reasonable prices. If you look an a magazine that has a picture of an engine built with them, there is 3 peeks, like a squiggle line, on the front of the heads.

 

And our stock lower manifolds will bolt right up, correct?

 

can anyone give a year and make of a vehicle there on

 

all Impala SS's...Read the ldecember Chevy High performance...This exact question is answered in it...Page 116...

 

No you have to have the SDPC base for tpi and TBI or you can get an edlbrock for carb the intake ports are just to tall when I set my stock base on my engine you could still see the intake ports they whent up at least an 1/8 past the edge of the intake.

 

I belive any 96 and up chevy or GMC truck with the 5.7 engine will have them.

 

you can buy a set from www.sdpc2000.com for like 400 bucks and some change, for a PAIR, assembled. I love em. Don't forget that the 350HO crate engines come with them.

 

Vortec heads were mainly found in trucks. Great flowing heads for the street. Scoggin-****ey, like said above, makes a TPI baseplate to match the Vortec intake ports of the heads. If you are going to go for power, Pace-Parts at paceparts.com sells a Wheeler motorsports prepared Vortec head. They put larger exhaust valves in as well as springs than can handle higher lifts. This would be better if you want performance overall. $550 a pair minus studs and guideplates.

 

Impala SS's come with iron LT1 heads with Vortec style ports, but they are not Vortec heads, they are LT1 heads.
The heads we want only come on 5.7L 350 Chevy/GMC trucks from 1996 to 1999 or so. They have a funky black intake with an air silencer that says Vortec on it.

 

All vortec heads are are standard flow LT1 heads with slightly raised intake ports...Read the Jan. Chevy High Performance, page 116...

 

Do you guys realze what it would coast for you to modify the LT1 vortec heads as you are saying they are .I thought the hole point of using the vortec head was a cheap performance up grade. The only way this will be is if you use the vortec heads from the 96 to 99 GM trucks any other style vortec head other then the fast burn you will have to do a lot of modifications to that most pople on this board do not have the tools to do and would have to pay some big $$$ to have done. Every thing in those mags is not true just so every one knows the LT1 came out before the vortec heads the vortec heads are desined after the LT1 heads and depending on whta mag your looking in you will herer this said both ways.

 

The vortec heads are the same head....That was my whole point...The Impala used a different intake manifold setup than the regular Camaro...The Impala heads and Camaro heads are NOT the same heads...The Impala had standard flow coolant routing, not hte F- and Y-body use reverse flow cooling system...

 

i dont think $400 for a set of assembled performance heads is a lot to ask. they flow better stock than the gm bowtie cast iron heads with the larger valves. many of us on this board have roller cams, but if you are looking at a cam with a ton of lift maybe you shouldnt be looking at vortec heads for those of us wanting around 350 horsepower easily and cheaply, i see no problem with vortec heads. after all, the 350HO (my crate motor) makes 330 horsepower with the vortec heads, a low lift cam and 9.1:1 compression, i see a lot of room for improvement there.

 

So you guys know I had a set of vortec heads on my car got rid of them and whent to the fast burns do a serch on vortec heads on this bord and you will hind me I made the first vortec tpi base and sold them to a few pople on this board and ofer at fbody.com and helped many of you build your own. but got tierd of every ones whining on this board so I left for a while but sence the vortec and fast burn heads are back on the sean I came back . Now hear is my ? if the inmapa has the same cooling set up as your standere 350 and not the lt1 then why is every one moding the LT1 maniford when they could just use one from an impala and avoid all the exctra work to fix the cooling problem. Ive seen a few of the in palas and they look like lt1s to me and If you check with the imala guys a popular mod was to buy the Lt4 engines and put them in the car Ive even read an artical on it and they reuse alot of stuff off of the car and they did not have to do any mods to get the cooling to work I guess Ill have to read up on the impalas and lt1s to see what had what.

 

Uhhh...Must be the crack/cocaine...
I didn't even think of it till you said something about it...And yes, the Impala uses a STANDARD FLOW LT1...Hmmm.....

 

Actually, the LT1 installed in the B-body was reverse-flow. Data from http://www.b-body.net/technical/driv...1-Cooling.html

 

Hmmm...Then all the info I have ever read is incorrect...Including the Helms shop manual....

 

the Vortec heads that peopel use for these are 96 and later, 5.7 l vortec heads. trucks with the L31 option (if i remember) casting numbers.....906 and ..... 062
those are the ones your looking for.

 

Any car that had the LT1 had reverse flow heads. Whether it was a Camaro, Firebird, Caprice, or Roadmaster. The bigger cars just had iron heads and bigger chambers. That's the only diff. But they were all reverse flow.

AJ