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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 06:50 PM
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I know that Craig has been busting azz turning stuff around lately and helped out two friends who needed stuff done in a very tight timeframe. Anyone running GTP heads on h/c setups lately? I know Fireball is going 124mph at 3500 raceweight.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 07:22 PM
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i have GTP S2+ that have been converted to S3. you are right,craig is the man!! that dude is simply brilliant. i can wait till he gets his hands on the AFR 225 castings, he did an amazing job on the 205s. i know that my next set of heads will be his AFRs, he has been at the forefront of the LT1 AFR porting.
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Originally Posted by 1QWIKZ
i have GTP S2+ that have been converted to S3. you are right,craig is the man!! that dude is simply brilliant. i can wait till he gets his hands on the AFR 225 castings, he did an amazing job on the 205s. i know that my next set of heads will be his AFRs, he has been at the forefront of the LT1 AFR porting.
From the way I read the post, those heads were ported from the bare casting state. If he wanted to do 225's, all he'd have to do is port on them some more. If he didn't start with AFR's program on the 205's, then why should he wait on the 225's? The castings are the same, just bigger ports.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Beast96Z
From the way I read the post, those heads were ported from the bare casting state. If he wanted to do 225's, all he'd have to do is port on them some more. If he didn't start with AFR's program on the 205's, then why should he wait on the 225's? The castings are the same, just bigger ports.
you are right, they were the bare castings. but fom what i understand, that was the first time he laid eyes on LS1 castings and only had less than a week to do his magic. no bad if you ask me, considering it wasnt a CNC program he used to port them.
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 07:38 PM
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Yea, the numbers were nice, I was just stating that he didn't have to wait on the 225's to do a 225ish port. He would just need a bare casting and someone to fund the project....
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 07:41 PM
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Well I guess that explains why he made my buddy (who's active military and Craig knows this) wait almost 2 1/2 months to get off his *** and ship his ported LT1 intake. This has put my friend's car finish date towards the time he'll be shipping back to Iraq, on top of the snow coming (he's stationed in New York).

Oh well, guess other priorities went first......
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Well I guess that explains why he made my buddy (who's active military and Craig knows this) wait almost 2 1/2 months to get off his *** and ship his ported LT1 intake. This has put my friend's car finish date towards the time he'll be shipping back to Iraq, on top of the snow coming (he's stationed in New York).

Oh well, guess other priorities went first......
your lucky, i waited 3 months for my heads but well worth the wait...i am sure GTP is not the only shop who has made customers wait for their product(must i mention AS..ooops i just did)..
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Old Sep 9, 2004 | 11:59 PM
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I'm glad to hear Craig is doing well. He's a good guy as well as a fine head man.
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Not to even mention what he did for me at the Thunder shootout last year.

I broke a 918 severely bent an intake valve. We pulled the heads saturday evening, he fixed it saturday night and I was running eliminations Sunday early morning...

talk about customer service
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I'm glad to hear Craig is doing well.

He and Steve Taylor (who used to work for Craig, and now is with PRC) helped out a buddy of mine. The car is run in a lift limited un-ported heads class. With their help in valve selection and vavle job we were able to pick up 30CFM over the heads when it came in the door with no other changes to he head.
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Originally Posted by J-Rod
I'm glad to hear Craig is doing well.

He and Steve Taylor (who used to work for Craig, and now is with PRC) helped out a buddy of mine. The car is run in a lift limited un-ported heads class. With their help in valve selection and vavle job we were able to pick up 30CFM over the heads when it came in the door with no other changes to he head.
wow
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Originally Posted by J-Rod
I'm glad to hear Craig is doing well.

He and Steve Taylor (who used to work for Craig, and now is with PRC) helped out a buddy of mine. The car is run in a lift limited un-ported heads class. With their help in valve selection and vavle job we were able to pick up 30CFM over the heads when it came in the door with no other changes to he head.
Now thats pretty wicked.
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Old Sep 10, 2004 | 04:02 PM
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I was wondering what happened to GTP. I have a set and just don't hear to much about them lately. Nice to know you are still there.
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Old Sep 10, 2004 | 04:27 PM
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What is the web page of the GTP...


Thanks...
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Originally Posted by LS6
What is the web page of the GTP...


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gtp-racing.com... you can call craig,but here's my warning to you: have a least 30 minutes to spare. that guy will explain everything in detail. he loves to talk about heads and the functions of velocity.
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