some of the work pictured is gasket matching,bowl work/blending/valve job.
have to get the rest if the oics off the camera and post them and maybe turn them into a write up

 

Damn! Nice job! Those valve seats look perfect! If you get a big HP increase, maybe I'll have to look into finding a 2.8 that I could use for parts and polish it up. But really, Nice work man.

 

thnx
yeah u can pick up alot o fhp with the ported heads.i didnt port this set for me though,this was a spare set i had that i just sold to a member of another board

 

They look really nice, Hey Dave how much do you charge for the pair? I'm seriously interested in getting some in about 1 1/2 months. Is there a horsepower difference that you can tell?

 

i dont have any cores i can do,yeah a port job is one of the better things to do,but gains will be at there best with headers and a cam,ported heads are just part of it.

talk to pairtoe he has a set i just did with brand new comp cams springs locks and retainers that hes letting go for a great price

 

yeah they are def worth it. they flow 10 times better then stock. although i had a bigger cam and roller rockers and other things to help out i cant really tell you the diffrence between them and the stock alone, but they are def much better then stock. i think dave ported mine out a little more than the ones in the picture though if im not mistaken. but if your interseted pm me for details.

 

yes u are correct urs are ported out more then what is pictured, i never got a chance to take finished pics of those heads when they were

 

The heads in the pics look more like gasket matching (the "shark fin" is a good way to tell how much has been removed). Were the pokets ported as well?

I've been looking at lots of porting pics lately, thinking of porting my iron heads to sell (actually the entire upper matched/ported). I won't need them once the hybrid is started.

 

yeah those pics were early stages pairtoes heads have a nice knifeedged fin just about
yeah they were pocket ported as well

the ex sides on pairtoes heads were opened up really nice as well not to mention just about mirror polished

 

Cool. I've learned that boosted heads are hard to "overport" because you don't have to worry about velocity issues. Ben told me that the 3400 heads can be opened up alot more than the 3500 heads because of the aftermarket metal gaskets, in turn making the 3400 heads flow better (than 3500). I'm not going through the extra trouble of porting the 3500 stuff, just gonna match it.

 

yup my new heads are actually getting cnced into the water jackets and then welded back up to increase the runner volume.the fin will also be gone form the heads.

the thing to remeber is the car will suffer when not in boost,so for something daily driven or mostly street driven u want to avoid losing velocity even if turbo charged

 

Mine isn't a DD,lol. I have less than 1000 miles since last Sept. The body still has less than 90k.

I don't know how that's going to work loosing the fin all together, it helps divide the air going around the valve stem. I'm curious to see.

 

What kind of dremel bits do you use to do that. I am going to gasket match my iron heads when I get them rebuilt for the new motor. Any methods? I also heard that it is bad to polish the intake ports just so that the fuel mixes.

 

o knife edge the material on the top of the runner leading to the valve stem.ona boosted motor then fin really dosent do much under boost
i use a die grinder with carbide bits,yeah when u do a port job u dont want to polish the intake ports in the heads,normally u finish up the ports with a 36=80 grit tootsie roll to runn the ports back up a lil bit, though on a fuel injected motor u can mirror polish the entire intake runner behind the injector

 

I am not going to fully port these heads, I don't have the know-how to do it right, just gasket match the intake/heads/maybe headers if I think about it.

 

A dremmel will take forever, a rotozip would be better, die grinder is the best.