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Old 02-01-2005, 02:06 PM
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How important is it?? My heads are being sent to me ported but not polished.
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the port job is what counts
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polishing just keeps carbon from building up on the surface. Eventually a lot of carbon buildup can hurt performance and basically hinder the flame from combusting as evenly as it could.

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Thanks. I won't worry about it then.
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Could always polish the combustion chambers and exhaust ports yourself... It should be pretty easy to do, and wont take off nearly enough material to change the port job they did. I think most leave the intake port unpolished to help with fuel atomization.
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you dont want to polish the intake.
you do want to polish the chamber and exhaust




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