Rebuilding a 302....Ideas?

[LTDPotential]

As soon as I get the shop, I'm taking the engine out of the TC and rebuilding it. When it's done, it's going in the Vic.
I've not done much research on what I want to do with it. I just know I want something with good amount of horsepower, but not something that's going to consume rediculous amounts of gas. Something mid-range, with good horsepower and torque, but not a race car. It's going to be my daily driver still, and eventually I'm going to do the manual tranny swap.

Here are the only ideas I have so far. I need to know what's best:

E7 Heads
GT Heads
HO Heads

What are the advantages/disadvantages to any of these? What else should I do to the engine?

[Grand Marquis GT]

the heads you speak of are one and teh same.

[Pirate]

Get a set of GT40P heads....unless you have to run the stock computer schtuff...

[Ifixyawata]

GT40P's are the ones that need the special exhaust headers right? And the GT40's do not require special headers....?

[Pirate]

Correct...but you can find used headers on Ebay that fit the P heads...

[Lincolnmania]

save your money and get a set of performance ported thumper e7 heads
scott

[LTDPotential]

save your money and get a set of performance ported thumper e7 heads
scott

Are these better than the GT-40 heads?

[DuceAnAHalf]

ive got like 4 sets of heads i think 2 are for a 351w and the others are for a 302 but i dont know if they are e7's or not

[Lincolnmania]

save your money and get a set of performance ported thumper e7 heads
scott

Are these better than the GT-40 heads?

yes.......they are better than the gt40x's

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