Porting cylinder heads
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Before you go out and grab your tools and start grinding on those $1000 Edelbrock heads you just bought, STOP. Porting requires practice, so do exactly that, practice on a set of old non-descript heads that you picked up at the local auto recycler. Try out your tools and see what they do. Remember to use the correct tool for cast and aluminum heads so you do not ruin the tool and hurt yourself. After you feel confident with working with your tools, we will go on to explaining what we want to accomplish in each segment. | Before you go out and grab your tools and start grinding on those $1000 Edelbrock heads you just bought, STOP. Porting requires practice, so do exactly that, practice on a set of old non-descript heads that you picked up at the local auto recycler. Try out your tools and see what they do. Remember to use the correct tool for cast and aluminum heads so you do not ruin the tool and hurt yourself. After you feel confident with working with your tools, we will go on to explaining what we want to accomplish in each segment. | ||
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| + | This is a simple process whereby we will match thermostat housing to an intake manifold for better flow of coolant from the engine to the radiator. Begin by cleaning off the surface of both housing and intake mating surfaces. Remove all gasket material and glue with acetone and a gasket scraper. True the surface of slight imperfections by using a mill/bastard file place flat on the gasket surface working the file back and forth. The shiny sports are the highs and the dull ones are the lows, true these surfaces. When a flat surface is obtained,paint the surface with Dykem dye, lay a new gasket on the surface and insert the bolts in the holes of the intake to center the gasket over the openings. With a scribe, scratch along the gasket edge around the opening. When complete, remove bolts and gasket. This will reveal a scribed line in the purple dye that you will be enlarging up the opening to. | ||
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| + | If this is an aluminum intake, chuck up a open cut burr that is used for aluminum, and spray it with WD40 or similar lubricant. This will make cleaning the tool easier, reduce friction and heat. Put your safety glasses and respirator on and start up your die grinder. Note which way the grinder turns, clockwise. Gently ease the burr against the upper portion and draw it along the intake opening working in a clockwise motion towards the bottom. Just lightly feather the burr and adjust pressure against the surface as you grow more accustom to the process. Trim more and more, as you come closer to the scribed line, stopping when you are a lines width away from it. Blow away any of the metal splinters that were made by the burr. Keep your work area clean. Begin removing material again from a different area until the entire open area is within a line's width of your scribed lines.Remove your burr, and chuck up a sandpaper roll of 80 grit. Gently move it around the perimeter of the opening once or twice. Check the surface for texture and note how close you are to your scribed line. Chuck up a 180 grit roll and move around the perimeter again one more time. Finish off by tilting the roll at 30 - 45 degrees of angle and go around the outer edge and remove the sharpness off that edge. Blow off the sanding dust and clean the gasket surface. Place the gasket on, insert your bolts and check to see how the gasket fits the opening now. Match the housing to the gasket to the surface the same way as you did the intake and you should have a perfect match. Apply this process to the other gaskets on your heads for optimum flow. | ||
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