Information on porting cylinder heads

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  1. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

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  2. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

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  3. gmcgruther

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  9. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

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  10. sean Buick 76

    sean Buick 76 Buick Nut

    I think Bobb is too busy building kick ass Buicks to post on here:

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  11. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    I'm afraid o don't have a definitive answer for you, but when I spoke to Bobb about doing my heads (its been a few years ago) its sounded as though they would be the ones doing them. Maybe they farm out the CNC and/or flow bench testing??? I don't know for sure. I was more chiming in to let Gary know that its highly unlikely Bobb will be posting here.
     
  12. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    I didn't say it was. I said I couldn't confirm one way or the other.
     
  13. 300sbb_overkill

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  14. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    No offense taken, I just wanted to be clear that I didn't know for a fact whether they had the equipment on site or not, and don't want to pass along wrong info about finish line.
     
  15. benderbrew

    benderbrew Well-Known Member

    This is a totally fantastic discussion....I'm learning a great deal. Thanks so much. I don't think Greg G. does head porting anymore. Seems like I saw or someone told me he went into strictly selling. Of course, I could be wrong and would hate to stop any work from Greg.
    Len
     
  16. sriley531

    sriley531 Excommunicado

    This is correct (unfortunately), Greg got out of porting and is focusing on his parts business.
     
  17. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

    May I ask why they don't use a flowbench? Even the vary best porters and air flow researchers use a flow bench! By not using one they never will know the true potential of a cylinder head attended for a certain. build! Look at Dart, Brodix, AFR, Reher-Morrison , Sonny's Racing engines and many more, they even use the flowbench on mild builds, that's called tuning the induction system. You can come close but never full potential without a flowbench...
     
  18. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

    That's hard to believe he is to busy! Darin M. , AFR, BRODIX, Sonny of sonny's racing engine and many more have wrotin me, Bobb doesn't do Buicks 24/7. Its his choice not to chime in.
     
  19. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

    Has anyone called him lately? :Do No::Dou::3gears::pray:
     
  20. gmcgruther

    gmcgruther Well-Known Member

    I posted something wrong in here. I said Harld Bettes redid his book Engine Airflow! I was wrong on that one. but there is a new book called " Practical Engine Airflow : performance theory and applications . by John Baechtel , fromer hot rod magazine editor and founder of Westech Performance Group. I'm thinking I might get it! Also this book "Performance Exhaust Systems : How to design, Fabricate & Install." The explains about tuning the system to your engine. I'm also gonna get "Competition Engine Building :Advanced Engine design &Assembly Techniques . Even though I went to school for this crap, I need refreshing....
     

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