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Am I wasting my time cleaning up these ports?

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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 07:02 PM
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Am I wasting my time cleaning up these ports?

So I have the whole motor apart, put in a decent size hydraulic roller. Figured I might as well clean up the ports a little. The heads are 185cc performer RPMs. Is this light porting going to make any kind of difference?





I used 80 and 120 grit rolls on the left port.





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not cleaned up:


Cleaned up:

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Old Aug 31, 2011 | 09:53 PM
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Re: Am I wasting my time cleaning up these ports?

I would recommend that you find a machine shop in your area and have the runner you ported flowed on a bench. Compare that to an unported runner.
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