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ported TB, should i do it myself or send it off?

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Old 01-04-2008, 11:38 AM
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I'm looking into porting my TB and I was wondering if I should do it myself or send it off. The thing is, my car is a DD, and it would be hard for me to part with my car for the turnaround time. Thunder racing does it for 150, but I dont really want to spend that much.

Does anyone have a guide to doing it yourself? I also want to do the bump stop mod but I dont have a scan tool for the fine tuning of it... any suggestions?
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If u dont wanna spend that much ,then i say diy,cant be to hard right,i personally sent mine off to Mark shaner ,he is a jam up guy ,great response time & 3 days i had my ported & Polished tb,i paid 159.00 to let mark do mine, warning,mark will talk the Horns off a billy goat ,
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This is easy as pie. DIY!

..don't expect to gain big HP, however.
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other sponsors on here do it as well, check with them. i believe new era was doing it for under $100 but again u have to send it off...personally, i'm gonna send mine and have it polished and the bump stop done as well...
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I sent mine off back in the day since I also had it powdercoated at the time. As for performance gains, I gained about 25 internet HP. That's, like, 5 real-world HP... +/- 5.
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send it off, bad blue ws6 & apexviii do it, they do great work and they don't charge much at all....just send them a pm...you could always send it to neweraperformance.com or whatever the site is, they do great work too




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