home ported heads

[Svt Abuser]

..has anyone here ported their own heads, to any significant gains/ I looked at patriot heads, they are really nice, perfectly machined...but thats alot of dough..and does the average joe need them that perfect? my thoughts are if you are doing a low buck 99-10 NA cobra, and you...do a full exhaust, headers, x pipe, nice cat back...port the heads and intake yourself, send the heads out for a valve job and HD valve springs, add a nice set of cams, do it all yourself, and you could end up with a fairly healthy low buck cobra. Im not expecting a home brew job like this to put out 500 hp, but I wonder what kinda gains you could be looking at. any one here have any fuzzy math to contribute?

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[WhtSuperStang]

i dont think i have ever heard of anyone doing there own 4v heads....but its definately possible..

 

[Svt Abuser]

ive done a few sets of 2.02 heads for old chevy 350, they came out great. I bought a book that had blueprints of a ported set of heads in it, and used the plans to navigate where to take out metal in my heads. I really like these CNC ported heads, they are beautiful, and seem perfect, but the price is high, and I dont know for sure that $2000 heads are necessary for my application...the car is never going to be a 1000hp hog, I am all about getting the free, labor intensive HP if its in there.

 

[WhtSuperStang]

well i say if u have the know how and tools take a stab at it! worse comes to worse u can find stock heads on ebay for liek 400 bucks? and if u dont want to do ur own heads or get patriot heads...the fr500 heads i think are a lil cheaper..

 

[cobra4075]

Aluminum heads = go for it!

Cast iron = I would never do that again!

I ported the stock heads on my GTO. They turned out really nice after 2 months of spare time and one trip to the eye doctor to get the steel removed.

 

[Ear Rak]

good luck with the porting but it wont get you 500hp

you might as well get cams too to make better use of the porting, and get it tuned

 

[rdsnake]

..has anyone here ported their own heads, to any significant gains/ I looked at patriot heads, they are really nice, perfectly machined...but thats alot of dough..and does the average joe need them that perfect? my thoughts are if you are doing a low buck 99-10 NA cobra, and you...do a full exhaust, headers, x pipe, nice cat back...port the heads and intake yourself, send the heads out for a valve job and HD valve springs, add a nice set of cams, do it all yourself, and you could end up with a fairly healthy low buck cobra. Im not expecting a home brew job like this to put out 500 hp, but I wonder what kinda gains you could be looking at. any one here have any fuzzy math to contribute?

Check out MMR, they do hand porting for $500 or so.