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not fired up man just a lil bummed ya know having all this horsepower and nothing to use it in, SUX LOL i even offered to let gary k use the motor just to see it run LOL.
Hey Shawn, You can come on over and help me wrench on mine :Brow:. That is after the snow stop flying. I still need to get the rear off and send it out to be rebuilt. Oh yea, and that nice rebuilt HEI needs to be installed. Later! Matt
Ya and dont forget the 350 heads in matt's garage, we need to get them ported up too. make that lil 350 run. we need to get Sonny to help with that thing. he is the 350 guru.
Hi folks, just a reminder to be carefull when comparing flow numbers from different head porters and flow benches. I just got my Bulldogs back recently from a head porter whose name you would all recognize. He didn't flow them out of the box, as he ordered them bare. I was shooting for between 500-550 h.p. After his "level one" porting job, the heads, w/o a header flow tube, were 310/185 at .500" lift. the "185" ported exhaust number is the same one mentioned in this post as an "out-of-the-box" flow number. Obviously, I could have paid more to get bigger numbers, but feel it wasn't necessary for my goal. Overall, my head porter was impressed with how little time he had to spend on the intake side, but disappointed on how much time he needed on the exhaust ports. He was also disappointed in the overall finish quality of the heads. One head didn't have any of the exhaust-bolt holes tapped, for example, and one rocker-arm hole was not threaded deep enough. The heads also had to be milled, since the surface was a bit "rough," out of the box. Just my experience. Cheers, Craig Stangohr Aiken, SC
Craig, Your head porter could not be more correct on his findings. The exhaust needs alot of work, but I did get mine over 250 at .700, NO PIPE. On the deck surfaces, I could not believe my eyes when I saw how rough they were and these were suppose to be ready to bolt on. :af:
10 Sec. How much material leeway is there on the exhaust port. Re: your signature, is this the modified Stg 1 style head with the Worlds best flowing exhaust port? Tom
Material leeway? Not sure what your asking. This would be the baddest stage 1 style modified exhaust port in the world. :bglasses: Hail to the King! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Head Gasket Surface finish Yeah Bad maching finish sucks. Equally unimpressive is the gasket surface finish on the semi finished T/A SE head, pictured on TSP's web site, under Product evaluations. The page 1 pic "out of the box" had the same machining finish as my bulldogs. This may be a standard thing when you order unfinished heads from the manufacturuer. In my case I needed to reduce the cc's, so this was not an unexpected cost. Also my supplier did cut me a break because of the delivery problems. I can share Jeffs frustration in recieving an expected final product not being satisfactory. In the end it sounds like these heads will rock, with the flow#'s being discussed. Tom
