Product Summary

Assembled Cylinder Head Style, Cast Iron

  • Bolt-on horsepower for your 1955-Newer Small Block Chevy V8
  • Uses modified combustion chambers and high velocity port technology to provide improved performance
  • Vortec cylinder heads significantly outflow non-Vortec service replacement cylinder heads and earlier OEM cast-iron heads
  • Completely assembled head with 1.940"/1.500" valves
  • Ideal for applications up to 350 horsepower - Requires Vortec specific intake manifolds
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Key Specs

MFG. Part #12691728
BrandChevrolet Performance Parts
Cylinder Head StyleAssembled
Material TypeCast Iron
Combustion Chamber Volume64cc
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Chevrolet Performance Parts 12691728 Details

Bolt-on horsepower for your 1955-Newer Small Block Chevy V8 with a set of these Vortec cylinder heads from Chevrolet Performance.

  • An easy way to gain 20-40 horsepower
  • For use with 1955-Newer Small Block Chevy V-8 engines (except later-style LT1/LT4 engines with reverse-flow cooling)
  • Value-priced cast-iron cylinder heads
  • Uses modified combustion chambers and high velocity port technology to provide improved performance
  • Vortec cylinder heads significantly outflow non-Vortec service replacement cylinder heads and earlier OEM cast-iron heads
  • Ideal for applications up to 350 horsepower
  • Requires Vortec specific intake manifolds
  • Completely assembled head with 1.940"/1.500" valves
  • Uses bare head p/n: 12529093
  • 64cc combustion chamber
  • Straight spark plugs
  • No heat risers
  • Camshafts with more than 0.475" lift require machining valve guide bosses and checking valve seal to valve spring retainer clearance
  • Can be machined for 2.020"/1.600" valves
  • Rocker arm studs can be pinned or drilled and tapped to 3/8"
  • Valve spring seat diameter is 1.280"
  • Casting number 10239906 or 12558062

Assembled with the following:

  • Intake Valves - 10241743
  • Valve Spring Retainer - 10241744
  • Exhaust Valves - 12550909
  • Intake Seals - 10212810
  • Valve Springs - 10212811
  • Exhaust Seals - 12564852
  • Valve Locks - 24503856

CARB Warning

For race/ off road use or for use on pre-1966 vehicles.

Emissions warning: this part only legal for sale or use in California for racing (competition) vehicles which may never be used, registered, or licensed for use upon a public highway, or if installed in vehicles model-year 1965 or older; motorcycles model-year 1977 or older; or off-highway recreational vehicles (such as off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles) model-year 1996 and older. Any other use renders the vehicle tampered and not legal for use on California public highways (any public street or roadway, public dirt road, public park, or publicly maintained right of way open to the use of the public for vehicular travel). Violations subject to $37,500 penalty per violation per vehicle, revocation of registration, loss of use on California public right of ways, and proof of correction for tampering. There are similar restrictions and penalties under federal law and the laws of all other states with penalties under federal law of up to approximately $45,268 per tampered vehicle and/or engine.

Chevrolet Performance Parts 12691728 Specifications

KEY SPECS
MFG. Part #12691728
BrandChevrolet Performance Parts
Cylinder Head StyleAssembled
Material TypeCast Iron
Combustion Chamber Volume64cc
GENERAL
Combustion Chamber Volume Range60cc - 69cc
Spark Plug StyleStraight
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Questions & Answers

1 Question • 1 Answer

i'm building a vintage 3.875 bore 283 chevy, do you know if these heads will fit

by stoney

• 3 years ago

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