Cylinder Heads 101
Hello all,
Ok this is my first post here but this thread has realy got me interested. I have never ported a head and realy an not sure how to go about it.
BJR, you said this to 64Ragtop;
Mr.64, What you have asked about the smoothing and the gasket matching. First DON"T SMOOTH THE PORTS, leave them as rough as you can as this helps atomization and doesn't hurt flow. Actually super flow says it has no effect on flow, but smoothing the ports will cause the fuel to puddle and cling on the port walls on the intake side. Causing a rich condition in the engine. But gasket matching and doing a good bowl blending will pick up the air flow greatly and HP, this will give you 80-85% of a fully ported head when done properly with a good valve job. So yes it's well worth it.
Can you or anyone for that matter please tell me, or post a link on how to carry out a mild port job to a set of 360 or 318 head's,please? Im in the same boat as 64ragtop. By the way I have a '69 right hand drive Barracuda and live in Scotland. Thanks.