Patriot Performance 243's...with pics!
I actually bought these heads new from someone on this board for a pretty decent price. A few days after I received them, Patriot and everyone else started coming out with fantastic deals for 243’s. I was planning on porting them myself, but couldn’t resist having them done at a really great price. Before I sent them out I polished the combustion chamber up a bit. There’s no way I could have done as good of a job on the porting, I’m glad I sent them out!
I got them mill 10 thousands, 5 angle valve job with 2.02 and 1.57 ferrea valves. The porting looks much better in person than in these pictures. Everything is very consistent. I could take a picture of one exhaust port and it’d be the exact same as another one. I don’t have the flow sheet here at work, but I remember that they flowed 303.5 at 600 lift on the intake.
I’m going to hand finish these heads to get rid of the track lines from the cnc machine and will post pics of those too. I’ll probably leave the intake as is, but will do some work to the exhaust to make it really smooth.
Thanks again Gunnar!
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______Intake__Exhaust
.100___73.7____61.9
.200___141.8___120.6
.300___205.5___160.5
.400___245.2___199.7
.500___282.8___215.6
.550___294.3___220.9
.600___303.5___225.6
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Last edited by Xtnct00WS6; Feb 9, 2006 at 10:35 PM.
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Just wanted to give an update. I've finished hand porting and I'm really pleased with the results. I didn't change the port design with exception of slightly opening up different parts. Here's a comparison of the combustion chamber:
I also have a concern about the valve sizes. The Ferrea's (sp?) go down into the piston farther than the stockers. I measured about a .040 difference.
I'm thinking of getting the valves onto a lathe and not worrying about it. I might get about .020 taken out from the bottom since the valve job took out around .010 to .020. Any ideas on that? I guess I could also lap the valve which I think might also take material from the valve seat.
Here are some more pics of the final result.
Thx


i hope to get some soon. let us know how they do will ya
