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Top Shop Challenge - Engine Building
Top Shop Challenge Trick Flow Super 23 Ported Head

Top Shop Challenge - Engine Building

Head Games

By Saul Vargas
Photography by Saul Vargas

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As you might have seen in last month's Castrol Syntec Top Shop Challenge update, we're building a small-block engine and are now full throttle on the build. With this build needing to be completed by August, we only had a few weeks to complete the engine from top to bottom. With us trying to psyche out the competition, it was only natural for us to play some head games. The top end of an engine is where all of the horsepower comes from, so with two Comp turbos being custom made, we started preparing the CNC Trick Flow heads to take everything that we throw at it.

The Trick Flow heads are the Super 23 Race CNC cylinder heads for small-block Chevrolet engines with 18-degree performance. These ported heads are the closest thing that you can get to 18-degree cylinder head performance in a 23-degree head. Designed to use standard small-block Chevy valvetrain components and headers, they're designed specifically for 400-c.i.d. and larger engines.

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