Pontiac heads?

[Anthony]

the lil brodies are the -8 heads with regular runner intake ports. They bolt up to the intake just like a set of L35 heads, however they come with angle spark plugs, thus requiring KB headers or custom. You can special order them straight, but it appears they angle the spark plugs slightly down in comparison with the stock production heads. This requires some slight modification of the primary/collector on ATR headers. Here is a pic of Tom Dow's old ATR headers with straight plug brodies, and what we did to fix this ugly patch job done by a previous shop.

Just to get this info out there, if anyone's planning on using the straight-plug Lil' Brodies with stock manifolds, the head on the driver's side needs to have the shoulder trimmed back to allow the manifold to sit flat against the head.

The spark plugs do sit closer to the manifold as well, especially on the passenger's side, to the point where the boots are nearly touching the manifold. I haven't found a way to keep the boots on the passenger side from melting and I don't think there is quite enough space for ceramic boots to fit. I anyone else has successfully used the straight-plug Lil' Brodies and stock manifolds, I'd like to know what worked for you.

Anthony