32 valve heads on a Windsor?

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

I just saw this in an old magazine a couple weeks ago...now i find a website on them. Has anyone ever seen anything like this in person? How are the cams driven? Crank pull and belts to cam sprockets? Does this mean you don't have a timing chain under the water pump anymore and no cam inside the block? What about timing?

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http://www.araoengineering.com/Ford/frdsmb.htm

[Timido]

Looks like regular pushrod deal with the cam in the block. One pushrod operates rocker arm that opens 2 valves. I dont think they are real new. I remember reading about them along time ago and not much came of it.

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Ok i was thinking two cams for some dumb reason. I'd like to see how the rockers work with something like that. You'd think there would be a lot of added pushrod stress with there being twice the valves to open.

[BigBadStang]

By the comments in THIS (http://www.gt40s.com/forum/feedback-buyers-sellers-vendors/24097-fraud-arao-engineering-inc-buyer-beware-2.html) forum, I would be scared to DEATH to send this outfit a penny. I didn't do a ton of research into it, but I can find no credible information on these heads, or any pictures/videos of a working set installed on a running engine. I'm not saying they don't exist, just saying that the prototype stuff in the old mags from back in the late 90's are the only info I can find on a WORKING set. Even after a quick scour of youtube, the only things posted that I could find were from Arao, and they were probably the prototypes. :dunno:

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Yeah it's like i said on the forum i found the link on....if they were really that badass wouldn't AFR and others have jumped on the bandwagon by now?

[cstreu1026]

I'm not sure about that company but there was a company called Dominion that was around in the mid to late 90's that was offering a similar head. It was around the time of the BXR intakes if you remember those.