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Old Apr 21, 2006 | 12:43 AM
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Due to my lower budget (thanks to school) I can't really spend all the money that I want to on mods right now. Once the spring gets here hopefully I will be throwing a cam in my car and I would like to do a little headwork as well. I know that there are some of you out there that port/polish your own heads at home and don't do a valve job. Here's my question, when I go to a machine shop, what do I need to ask for to get a port/polish job like done at home only in a little more professional manner. Whenever you tell them that you wanna get your heads ported/polished they always want you to do the valvejob as well and I can't really afford that right now. If I could, I would be better off buying new heads because the machine shop would charge around $700 just to do the work to stock heads.

This is what I plan on having, do you guys think that 400 RWHP is achieveable with this?
Comp- XE-R 228/232 .588/.595 110LSA +2 on 108 ICL
LS6 Intake
Ported/polished stock heads
Ported/polished throttle body
Pacesetter Longtubes
True duals w/ x-pipe
MTI Lid
....along with a good tune. What do you think? Can I get to 400?
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Old Apr 21, 2006 | 08:52 AM
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I believe that PRC will run your stock heads through their CNC for ~$400. Contact the guys from TSP and see what they can do.
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Old Apr 21, 2006 | 01:24 PM
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i think that with what you're planning you would easily have 400 rwhp, maybe as much as 420 rwhp. heads really help out alot.
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Old Apr 25, 2006 | 12:49 AM
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ttt wondering the same thing
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Old Apr 25, 2006 | 02:03 AM
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I have what you need for sell and at a good price.
http://www.ls1miata.net/gallery/album01?page=3

For sale $350 with everything you see in the pics.

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