whats the point anyway? Unless your talking a numbered car or a one that will keep AC it is out right foolish to dump money into 8v head to a tune of over $600. You can buy a 03-04 Cummins Holset new for $400 on Ebay and cores at junk yards for less. There are allot of T3 exhaust manifolds to get I bought a Mex 2.4 manifold for $200. Then of corse is a 16v 2.4 Stratus head you can buy like mine, totally complete at the local pick n pull for a wopping $54. For what a big valve head alone cost you can almost completely build a mean 16v engine. Bolt it on an existing 8v block and use a thicker head gasket and your less money. Personally I have been porting heads for about 15 years and I know a guy that owns a machine shop. It is a wopping $40 for the seat work plus as much as $150 for valves (good ones). The only other real difference in porting is the combustion chamber on a big valve head. A wopping 1 hour more work and less than $200 more cost from a stock valve head to a big valve head, not including if your buying stock valves anyway. And don't give me any crap about garage porting either. The last guy I did a 455 olds pair of heads gained 160 HP with my heads, and I didn't even enlarger the valves. My GLHS with stock valves and a weak simple port job I did on 3 pistons and 13 PSI, made 203 at the tires. Look in Mopar Muscle this month. Porting is art work and a gift, if you got straight As in school and are a book worm, don't even attempt to port heads as you can't see it. If your a right side minded artist do some reading and really eye ball some race ports done by Indy and others. Then all it is is sculpture, and make each port the same. Am I against people making money? No, but at this point it isn't much worth it, and last time I checked this whole group was about power per dollar. Using a 8v setup for big power no longer fits into that with the dirt cheap 16v hybrids.
Rob Walsh 86 GLHS 76 84 DC Shelby Rampage 89 Shelby Dakota 1207 87 Shelby Charger 70 Challenger R/T SE > > > > Is there a better ported/big valve head built by someone else? > DEFINITLEY NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Probably. > > Are you absolutely sure? > Steve had alot of guidance from 2 very important people involed in > performance cylinder heads. The man Steve worked for is currently doing > Pro-Stock Hemi heads. He was a major contribution to Steve's work. He is > also nationally known as the man you go to for Super Stock small block Chevy > heads. No arguing this as the person I bought my flowbench from sold it to > me because he said he was fortunate enough to get a set of his heads for his > SS car. He told me his small block headwork is nationally known as being #1 > and this was before I knew who he was talking about. The other "mentor" > is someone who likes to remain anonymous and has a 240cfm head at only .430" > lift. That is substantially better than a T-III 16v head. > > Not knocking anyone elses work, but just pointing out that maybe you should > know a bit more about Menegan's work before writing him off or considering > his work inferior. Same goes for Todd, right? That being said, I > myself, would like to hear some of Todd's background, too. > > Steve Mercier -----------------------REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING---------------------------- Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html
