port heads and intake myself?any help appreciated
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port heads and intake myself?any help appreciated
wondering could i port my heads and intake myself since i will have evrything aprt anyway im tempted to give it a try??i have a c.a.i installed and the guy i bought the car from says it has a cam but i dunno????its a 1994 camaro z28.also if i can port them are there any sites that show u how to or some sort of redrence........i just want to get my car in the low-mid 12's.headers and cam are soon to come........
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RE: port heads and intake myself?any help appreciated
As long as you have a die grinder and the proper set of abrasives, yes you can port and polish your heads. I would practice first on the cheapeset set you can find at the junk yard. Take your gasket and line all the bolt holes up. Secure it to the head and then take a permanent marker such as a sharpie and mark the material between the runner and the gasket. That is the general guideline as to how far you can port it. Take the heavy cut abrasive and start working the material down. Make sure you are even and get all the way towards the center of the head where they start to turn down into the combustion chamber. Leave about 1/16" and then start using the medium cut and bring it down to about 1/32" from the perimeter of the allowable "machined" surface. Bring out the lightest abrasive and start "polishing" your work. As far as the combustion chamber, I would leave that alone. Each head is different and it should really be done by a professional.
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RE: port heads and intake myself?any help appreciated
Porting is something better left to experts unless you have one of them guiding you. Remove materail from the wrong spot, and things will get worse instad of better, and the head is ruined. The one safe thing you can do, is gasket matching head and manifold ports, so there will be a smooth transition from one to the other.
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RE: port heads and intake myself?any help appreciated
This outfit has a good rep.
http://www.eportworks.com/
http://www.eportworks.com/
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