Home intake porting, how involved????

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Mar 20, 2010 | 05:34 PM

crazyjoe

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Home intake porting, how involved????

Say a feller was pondering porting his own intake (for the time being until he can afford the time and material for an LS6 swap), how hard is it and exactly how much porting is involved once the intake is off the car? My best bud has basically all the tools one would need to do the port job but I'm not sure if any specialty tools are involved. Is this something that should be left to a professional or can a "shade-tree mechanic" produce some results? I figured that since the headers are on the way I might as well try to free up as much horsepower as possible. I'm gonna pick up the Intense FWI, manual cut-out, and a tranny cooler. Then I'm gonna have it dyno-tuned by Bluecat of kyhorsepower.com (guy knows his stuff) so hopefully I'll see some decent gains. But back to the question at hand, should I attempt a home port job or leave it to the "pros".

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Mar 20, 2010 | 07:37 PM

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I would leave it to the professionals, I have a ported intake from fasterproms and it works great, I've heard of people porting their own and messing up their intakes, so if you do it yourself be careful

Mar 20, 2010 | 11:32 PM

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Getting mine done soon from fasterproms

Mar 21, 2010 | 06:58 AM

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I've heard you can do it by slowly introducing sand into the intake tube with the engine WOT. That's just what I've heard, I haven't tried it though. Lol.

Mar 21, 2010 | 07:18 AM

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I've heard you can do it by slowly introducing sand into the intake tube with the engine WOT. That's just what I've heard, I haven't tried it though. Lol.

LOL I read about that too... Someone should find and post that thread here. But that method is usually reserved for ricers and imports (audi) and not for v8 muscle cars worthy of NOT destroying

Mar 21, 2010 | 07:26 AM

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LOL I read about that too... Someone should find and post that thread here. But that method is usually reserved for ricers and imports (audi) and not for v8 muscle cars worthy of NOT destroying

Yea I've heard that it works best on turbocharged 4cylinders that lack torque.