It's starting to look almost like you could have a Falconer style head actually made to bolt up native to a 292, and it might not cost much more than doing what you're doing. Hear me out.. For grins, I emailed a Chinese outfit with a good reputation, concerning the possibility of making some new aluminum alloy cylinder heads for a Cadillac V8. They said they would need two sample heads, one of which to cut up, and that it would cost ten grand. Which.. actually seems really reasonable to me. I guess modern 3D modeling and printing of the casting elements really cuts down on the cost of engineering and making something like a cylinder head, in quantities smaller than 50 units.
They can make anything from a lawnmower up to good size industrial diesel engines, so a car or truck size head (or if you have the money, the whole engine) isn't beyond their abilities at all. If there's any interest, I could get some info together.
For reference, some other Cadi guys were talking about how it would cost forty to fifty grand to have a US based outfit do the job-and that would be based on already extant plans for the Bulldog heads that CMD once had made, so the engineering work was done previously.
