These are heavy duty 350 truck heads with big low compression chambers around 78 ccs and small valves and ports. Not suitable for things other than medium size trucks with a dump/delivery/tow package that do real hard work at low engine speeds. You'll see these listed for crate motors and OEM truck production from the mid 1980's to the latter 90's, all of these applications are correct, unsaid about the crate engine is that it's a heavy duty truck replacement engine. These are not Swirl Port nor Vortec heads, if anything their design harkens back to the 283 and 327 economy car or HD truck engines of that era with very low compression and a 1.72 inch intake valve.
they came with "186" casting number heads.........
I have the same heads and from the info I found they 76cc heads with 1.72 intake valves
1970-71 Chevrolet Small Block 400cid heads.
The combustion chamber size of the heads with the casting number 376450 is 60cc. It is possible to install larger valves.
1979 267 / 350 engine ! Danny Coleman
The chambers are 60cc. The heads are from 77-78 307 engine.
You need to get a Casting # book and look up which heads you have.
Find the casting number on them... type "GM (insert casting number)" into a search engine and you should find what you're looking for.
If it has a 5.3 engine, first have the cylinder heads pressure tested. Heads with a casting # of 706 like to crack in the number 1 head bolt hole. If this happens, replace head.
There 194 heads 1970 to 1980 heavy cast iron heads
Find a book on casting numbers for chevys it will give you the year of the block the heads & the manifolds.
read casting numbers and research on the web. Just Google small block Chevy heads castine numbers. These numbers are under the valve covers so you will have to take one off.