317 heads for boost...Home Porting ?
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317 heads for boost...Home Porting ?
Curious on what you guys recommend for just doing a simple home port job? These are going on my boosted 370 build. Figured I have everything apart I could just clean the heads up easy enough. I am also in no real rush. I have done some searching around but figured I would still ask.
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I recommend you don't do it. Very few people truly have a knack for it. If you want horse around on a set of junk heads for the experience, that's different. By the time you buy what you need to do a not harmful job, you're halfway to sending them to AI or Livernois for proven results.
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Let's be honest here - who here has ruined a set of heads on a home port job?
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There is power to be had by just cleaning up the rocker stud, and working around the bowl area/against the valve guide. Not extremely time consuming, or difficult to do. Just need a nice aluminum die set and a die grinder.
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Did you want your compression that high for street manners? Great numbers for a relatively cheaper build. That's exactly what I am shooting for with my procharger setup.
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lots of youtube how-tos on porting LS heads. It takes a lot of work to **** up a cylinder head completely.
Just need to remember that a little bit goes a long ways, especially on a boosted application.
if youre referring to the hole you see in the runner, that is the rocker boss not the water jacket.
Every CNC LS head on the planet has a hole there, and is normal.