Come on guys... people hand port their intake manifolds AND cylinder heads all the time and have for many years with tons and tons of success. This is a tried and true way to genuinely get more power out of what you have. It doesn't NEED to be done by a CNC machine and if you match the gasket to the head and trace the outline of the gasket to the intake manifold ports it'll be fine. I don't get the hate honestly.
Nicely done video. You describe things really well and make it interesting. If you're open to feedback, one thing I can suggest is using a face shield in addition to the safety glasses. Several years ago I was porting iron Ford 390 FE heads to match the new valve sizes. I was using a die grinder. Lots of chips were flying. One found its way under the glasses and into my cornea. Very painful. It left a "rust ring." in my cornea. Fortunately I got to the ER in a few hours so the ring wasn't super dark and didn't need "polishing out" later by the doctor.
read sumtin about porting a while back that kindah made sense the older tuners that tested there ported intakes for carburaters on the dyno kept the surface slightly rough the roughness caused the air to roll around a little wish kept the fuel atoms suspended in the airstream people that used polished intakes thought the air would had less resistance and flowed better , it did but allso caused the fuel to setle and puddle in the manifold wish caused the engine to stumble / bog down wish robbed power with the newer portinjection manifolds they now tend to polish everything in front of the injectors and keep everything rough after the injectors , not sure if its the right way but it makes sense in getting the best of both theories by the way good news for me : think i finaly found a bigger (shared) garage / storage for my trucks with use of a lift ,that its about a 1/2 hour drive from my home hopefully it will help me finish the trucks i own
I grew up riding motorcycles also, And go carts, My first bike was a honda XR-75, I purchased it from a good friend of mine who raced that bike, when he upgraded in class, he sold me, his Honda XR-75 bike, it had many upgrades, and was very fun, and very fast little bike!
just want to say you do some great work and a lot of people have no clue on how to be in two worlds at the same time thats the hobby and the family I have 4 children and 5 cars some of them are racecars and some of them are street cruisers love building cars for people and myself my day job is working on diesel engines on buses and a full time dad and im only 26 thanks for the tips and taking the time to read this
This is to me exactly why I love this channel. I knew porting a head was good for performance but I had no idea what it was how it was done or anything. In under 20min I now have a much better understanding of the whole process. So happy.🙌😁
this isn't porting... its gasket matching. this will increase throttle response maybe... but possibly lose low end torque lol probably barely increase in CFM
first I want to say I love your videos. sharing knowledge is how we all become better craftsman/woman. My set up for porting that I like is an electric die grinder and a simple foot pedal from Amazon. it allows me to control the speed, keep my hands free to control the machine and is safer than using the EDG with the on off switch. been porting heads for about 6 years now....
I recently rebuilt the engine for one of my vehicles. I matched ported all the manifold and also cleaned up all the port runners on the cylinder head. I ended up machining some dowels and used them to keep the gaskets aligned. I also match ported the turbo to the exhaust manifold. I think I spent a total of 15 hours all up in fine tuning.
Elisabetta Canalis It will work. You don't have to port the cylinder head. BUT if you have things apart and have the time you might as well port the intake and heads. You will get gains from the intake porting but of course if you don't do the heads it will be choked down a bit. Imagine going down a nice smooth slide. Then near the bottom the slide narrows and there is gravel scattered about on it. So your gunna be slowed down a bit i.e just like the air going from your ported intake runners down into the unported heads.
Greetings from Norcal....grandbabies hitting 2 so that 3 year old is pretty cool, enjoy those children...they will grow up. your channel is pretty good thanks for making the videos
You gonna kill power if you do it like this. You need to first make a mold of head openings and transfer that to intake manifold. You should never use gasket for this job.
You need to mark the gasket as it lays AS INSTALLED on the block China Wall w/ heads installed. Because that is where it will sit no matter where you MIGHT want it.
everyone else says corded electric drills are not good for this. one said something about the sideways forces being bad on the bits. they say the rpms are too low. would you also use this on some iron heads?
Too cool! I just bought a 67 stang with a stock 78 351 W. Was thinking about buying the edlebrock performer top end kit, but maybe I should just port & polish the stock heads & intake manifold?
if using an electric die grinder over an air one go to harbor freight they have a rheostat for under $15 where you can adjust the speed of your electrical an infinite amount or pretty much anything within the amp rating of the rheostat ..I also use it on a house fan the ones that have 3 settings ..load as fuck and almost as loud or quit but doesnt move any fucking air. plug the rheostat in and crank it up till it gets noisy then back it off and nice quiet fan that keeps you cool ..just a place to keep it till you need it again
Thanks for posting this mysterious art of porting. Cute kids. Do you have any idea of flow increase and resulting horsepower increase on this project? Thx!
Alright, hands down the best lubricant for the carbide is WAX! Just get an old wax candle and hit it with the bit every now and then. Your bit will be hot and the wax melts, no sticking what so ever.
i watch your channel all the time, but i am really into the custom jeep cherokee XJ's and chevy square body trucks such as k10,k20,,k5...i bet any offroad build you do would be spectacular! besides dont you live near a shit load of public offroad trail systems.?.!. they have closed all the trails here in western part of nc, but i still continue to have the desire to create custom trucks,buggies, and jeeps
hey man very cool videos I have a set of gt40 heads just redid myself also picked up a cobra upper and lower would gasket matching the intake benefit me?
Christopher Kimpel It most definitely would and would be worth it because it is hard to find parts for the V6s. I am currently building a 4.3 that came stock in my S10 Extreme. Only reason I am doing this build/mission is because my truck has 77k miles and 1 previous owner, it's also a pickup truck and every gear head in America knows the importance of having a pickup truck to your fleet of vehicles and and a S10 or any other GM small pickups are probably the biggest asset in your fleet. For that engine theirs a guys who done the most incredible work I ever seen for that engine on UA-cam and was very detailed in his description of do and don't while porting the manifold and head to the MAX. Reply back to me and I will reply to you his channel name and just sit back and enjoy. He was doing for his buddy's Typhoon. Wait that truck has a 4.3 like mine. Anyway let me know if you want more info and he replies back with great detail if your serious about really doing or about to. Grand National has that engine so it's best to watch my buddy's videos. It's a lot of work though and isn't worth the time and effort if your not doing a cam,forced induction of your choice, or both. Also stroke the crank if possible and the sleeper you will have will be a beast depending on the setup you have. Way faster than you can imagine.
+jeremy grant I should have a limited batch for sale in the next few weeks over on the killfab.com site. I have had a ton of request so I will let everyone know when they are available.
It did, but I stuck the blade in the tire to scrub it off. Worked okay, but in the rare event that I have to do that again, I'll bring the WD. I've yet to find anything anywhere to suggest a sawzall blade FOR aluminum. I was using a steel blade, then switched to a demo blade (wood + nails), because I was pretty damn sure that the fewer teeth per inch would do better in aluminum.
Alright, so whats the cost vs HP return when comparing porting to an already high flow manifold? Why go through the pain in the ass to port one when so many exist now that are designed to have massive channels?
they all have to be port matched...massive channel or not. I wasn't porting in this video I was just matching the intake ports to the cylinder head ports.
+Matthew Supples also it helps a tad more to use sand drums to polish the runners too, its not much but helps sooth out the air flow just that little bit more. if you gain say 10hp for porting polishing will give you 1 more basically
Agreed 100%. I haven't seemed to need the help much with my carbide burrs since I went with single cut rather than double cut. It's supposed to be better for aluminum. Seems to be true. They never clog up, but they haven't seen tons of use either. Buying the cheaper double cut burrs would buy a LOT of WD-40 to prevent galling. LOL
The MOST important thing in porting( as a porter) is get the right intake first! 2nd, have the right tools that works best for YOU, not someone else. I only use air tools to remove unwanted bulk. For the important part I use a FOREDOM foot controlled unit. They are expensive for the USA made Foredom but NO SHORTCUTS.Have a plan/theory. Don't cut metal just to cut metal. If you don't know what to do, just port match everything and leave it at that. You can always go back at a later date. I have a background in Physics and have build engines that have set 14 land speed records, won AMA titles and put smiles on many a face! One thing to remember, velocity is more important than volume!
I was watching this video, as I ported my Intake Manifold. I've been using hand Filers, pretty easy since mines Aluminum as well. Then smoothing it out with another filer. Great Video
I do basically the same and have done a number of heads and intakes. Electric high speed to rough everything in, regular ol' slow drill to finish/detail. Sit my ass down w/ some music just like you show...except I put hearing protection over the earbuds...kills my ears otherwise. I find there's a certain meditative quality to this kinda work.
I started out to do the same thing to my 350 small block. I'm using an Edelbrock intake manifold and Fel-Pro gaskets as my guide. The gaskets are much larger than the intake port. Like you, I would have to remove a great deal of material to get the intake manifold to match the gasket. When I put the same fel-pro gasket on my cylinder heads, the port shape of the gasket is much larger than the cylinder head opening. If I make the intake manifold port the same as the felpro, there will be a great deal of mismatch between the intake manifold and the cylinder head port. If, and when I bolt the manifold to the heads, the mismatch will be significant. What I'm wondering.... with all this mismatch between the manifold and head, won't the disruption of flow hurt the efficiency and performance? I think it will. Oh, I'm using AFR ported 180 cylinder heads with the 2.02 and 1.6 valves.
Rob Macfarlane Hey what's up just going through his comments for answers to some my questions and was wondering how did you make out and which of the 2 parts was larger than the other. You said mismatched but didn't specify which one was larger,smaller, and I would love to know the end result? Did you change the valves because of the problem or they stayed the same? Looking forward to your reply and if you have the time to can you write the details. Thanks and have a great day.
The intake runner should always be ported smaller than the gasket. Just make them equal and square them up. If the heads are ported right, there will be a taper into the port that will compensate for typical misalignment.
I like to have the heads on the block torque the gaskets down, mark it all, undo it scribe the intake Glue gasket back on the head on the marks. After you cut the intake, tourqe it back down and check it with bore scope you will be happy. I used to do them without that until I found on some heads I was having overhang. They look good though.
Get yourself a high quality variable speed electric die grinder. I've got an old corded quarter inch Milwaukee that I've had for around 40 years. I use it with a speed controller. It may be a little bit of an investment, but it's a tool that you will use all the time once you have it. Also, pick yourself up a good old can or tube of quality grinder grease. You can use the WD-40 to keep the residue down while you're working.
FYI,,, gasket matching provides very little (if any) gain! (unless the head has a smaller opening than the manifold, then it's worth doing. Opening that up, can hurt more than help b/c the air slows down when it hits that larger cross section. Just saying... Always enjoy your videos though. Rock on. MCE Performance
I think for this job it would have been better to use a cylindrical tree file instead of a oval since the oval one removes material inconsistently meanwhile the cylindrical one would be straight all the way through. . .
Three is such a fun age! When my son was young, I would read to him at bedtime a book called My Race Car. He had it memorized. So I would improvise new lines or plot twists. He loved that. Now speaking of twists, I'm into a unique off-road build based upon a T5 swap into a Vanagon. Custom 4X4 "sin crow." Pretty soon I will start a build thread on TheSamba.
Well, we'll see. The idea is for my son to have a reliable and fast travel/camping rig. He is a trombonist in music school. During summers he can get good work in west coast music festivals between San Francisco and Bellingham.
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Come on guys... people hand port their intake manifolds AND cylinder heads all the time and have for many years with tons and tons of success. This is a tried and true way to genuinely get more power out of what you have. It doesn't NEED to be done by a CNC machine and if you match the gasket to the head and trace the outline of the gasket to the intake manifold ports it'll be fine. I don't get the hate honestly.
They dont understand the true process. Hell the cnc port designs generally come from ones done by hand.
You would think anyway but about the time you hog out the gasket area too much it screws up the port velocity and that's a bad thing
@@blackbirdxx928 not if you're running a bigger cam
@@blackbirdxx928 moves the rpm band up
The Fab Forums by the way you enlarged the holes how much power you think you added
Nicely done video. You describe things really well and make it interesting.
If you're open to feedback, one thing I can suggest is using a face shield in addition to the safety glasses. Several years ago I was porting iron Ford 390 FE heads to match the new valve sizes. I was using a die grinder. Lots of chips were flying. One found its way under the glasses and into my cornea. Very painful. It left a "rust ring." in my cornea. Fortunately I got to the ER in a few hours so the ring wasn't super dark and didn't need "polishing out" later by the doctor.
read sumtin about porting a while back that kindah made sense
the older tuners that tested there ported intakes for carburaters on the dyno kept the surface slightly rough
the roughness caused the air to roll around a little wish kept the fuel atoms suspended in the airstream
people that used polished intakes thought the air would had less resistance and flowed better , it did but allso caused the fuel to setle and puddle in the manifold wish caused the engine to stumble / bog down wish robbed power
with the newer portinjection manifolds they now tend to polish everything in front of the injectors and keep everything rough after the injectors , not sure if its the right way but it makes sense in getting the best of both theories
by the way good news for me : think i finaly found a bigger (shared) garage / storage for my trucks with use of a lift ,that its about a 1/2 hour drive from my home
hopefully it will help me finish the trucks i own
+watahyahknow I have heard very similar things about leaving cnc heads alone because the tool path marks work the same way you just described
Yep smooth intake ports are a bad thing all the new c&c stuff has little edges all the way down the intake port
I grew up riding motorcycles also, And go carts, My first bike was a honda XR-75, I purchased it from a good friend of mine who raced that bike, when he upgraded in class, he sold me, his Honda XR-75 bike, it had many upgrades, and was very fun, and very fast little bike!
My first bike was an XR 75 also, great little bike, lots of fun!
Scott C lm
Scott C Military
Thanks for being a great dad for your children! Nice port matching lesson too!
Dude i STILL refer back to your tube bending video's!!! This is another good one
just want to say you do some great work and a lot of people have no clue on how to be in two worlds at the same time thats the hobby and the family I have 4 children and 5 cars some of them are racecars and some of them are street cruisers love building cars for people and myself my day job is working on diesel engines on buses and a full time dad and im only 26 thanks for the tips and taking the time to read this
thanks for watching
This is to me exactly why I love this channel. I knew porting a head was good for performance but I had no idea what it was how it was done or anything. In under 20min I now have a much better understanding of the whole process. So happy.🙌😁
this isn't porting... its gasket matching. this will increase throttle response maybe... but possibly lose low end torque lol probably barely increase in CFM
first I want to say I love your videos. sharing knowledge is how we all become better craftsman/woman. My set up for porting that I like is an electric die grinder and a simple foot pedal from Amazon. it allows me to control the speed, keep my hands free to control the machine and is safer than using the EDG with the on off switch. been porting heads for about 6 years now....
+D Rell (Duce) awesome...thanks
I recently rebuilt the engine for one of my vehicles.
I matched ported all the manifold and also cleaned up all the port runners on the cylinder head.
I ended up machining some dowels and used them to keep the gaskets aligned.
I also match ported the turbo to the exhaust manifold.
I think I spent a total of 15 hours all up in fine tuning.
You just gained like 50 gazillion rep points just because the beagle walked in. I love my beagle chip.
+Kevin Kurz lol
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The Fab Forums Will ported intake manifolds work with the stock non ported cylinder heads or do I have to port the cylinder heads as well?
Elisabetta Canalis It will work. You don't have to port the cylinder head. BUT if you have things apart and have the time you might as well port the intake and heads. You will get gains from the intake porting but of course if you don't do the heads it will be choked down a bit. Imagine going down a nice smooth slide. Then near the bottom the slide narrows and there is gravel scattered about on it. So your gunna be slowed down a bit i.e just like the air going from your ported intake runners down into the unported heads.
R. Flash Thanks for the info
Does opening up intake port to match heads intake port size slow down the air velocity?
Yes.
as a combat veteran that song ya played while porting was outstanding.
Glad you like it
I always taught you had to have some special skills which i didnt have to do this till i succesfully ported my first manifold.
Greetings from Norcal....grandbabies hitting 2 so that 3 year old is pretty cool, enjoy those children...they will grow up. your channel is pretty good thanks for making the videos
+danekeeper1 thanks for watching
Good job bud! Your blessed with a beautiful family!! Lime to see you head porting and deshrouding the valves!!
What is the tune your listening to? I like it.
if you dont like using the air. get a small end grinder its ment for doing that stuff an they spin just as fast air ones
what I have works perfect
Great video! Just a question, what is the best way to clean the runners for those aluminum bits and also for decarbonizing? Water and soap can do?
Good tip about the WD-40 I could have used that a few time in the past. No tool box is complete without some WD.
+Tim datoolman for sure
Nice channel. Grew up in Lexington. Plenty of hot rods there.
Just wondering ,improve performance much? Like without porting heads to? Cheers from Oz
You gonna kill power if you do it like this. You need to first make a mold of head openings and transfer that to intake manifold. You should never use gasket for this job.
I'm surprised your son was so chill when you had your phone out lol my baby boy goes crazy trying to get my phone when I have it out
yeah he was pretty young then
You need to mark the gasket as it lays AS INSTALLED on the block China Wall w/ heads installed. Because that is where it will sit no matter where you MIGHT want it.
I did
everyone else says corded electric drills are not good for this. one said something about the sideways forces being bad on the bits. they say the rpms are too low. would you also use this on some iron heads?
I never had any issues...I would spend the time need to work cast iron heads
Too cool! I just bought a 67 stang with a stock 78 351 W. Was thinking about buying the edlebrock performer top end kit, but maybe I should just port & polish the stock heads & intake manifold?
If they are cast iron I would suggest just buying new aluminum ones...the cast iron is a pain to port
if using an electric die grinder over an air one go to harbor freight they have a rheostat for under $15 where you can adjust the speed of your electrical an infinite amount or pretty much anything within the amp rating of the rheostat ..I also use it on a house fan the ones that have 3 settings ..load as fuck and almost as loud or quit but doesnt move any fucking air. plug the rheostat in and crank it up till it gets noisy then back it off and nice quiet fan that keeps you cool ..just a place to keep it till you need it again
The beagle is awesome
Should have pointed out the casting flanges that are commonly deep inside the intake channels that need cleaning up too..
Thanks for posting this mysterious art of porting. Cute kids. Do you have any idea of flow increase and resulting horsepower increase on this project? Thx!
thanks. I dont sorry. I was mainly matching the cylinder heads on the projects
Nice job match porting and a great Q and A
+huck01955 thanks
Love the commercial, reverse pschology.
Nice Video... Your a Great Father... Keep it up...
thanks man
Why don't they come already ported and polished?
Alright, hands down the best lubricant for the carbide is WAX! Just get an old wax candle and hit it with the bit every now and then. Your bit will be hot and the wax melts, no sticking what so ever.
I use wax on grinding discs for aluminum work, I could see this working I'm gona try this this thanks
Old methods never die! We live on free horsepower!
I will be dog damned if I am going to spend hundreds on a machine shop. I aint no rich man.
Hand porting it shall be!
yea bro i got a quote just out of curiosity and they said $700 fuck that
cant wait for an offroad build on the fab forums channel !
I have the itch
i watch your channel all the time, but i am really into the custom jeep cherokee XJ's and chevy square body trucks such as k10,k20,,k5...i bet any offroad build you do would be spectacular! besides dont you live near a shit load of public offroad trail systems.?.!. they have closed all the trails here in western part of nc, but i still continue to have the desire to create custom trucks,buggies, and jeeps
hey man very cool videos I have a set of gt40 heads just redid myself also picked up a cobra upper and lower would gasket matching the intake benefit me?
Nice shop bro!!!
Nice work!
+Blake's Garage thanks
dumb question the bibster is the fox buggy right?
+Noah W (BmxNoob) yeah
Would it be worth porting out my 3.8 GM V6
probably not
Christopher Kimpel It most definitely would and would be worth it because it is hard to find parts for the V6s. I am currently building a 4.3 that came stock in my S10 Extreme. Only reason I am doing this build/mission is because my truck has 77k miles and 1 previous owner, it's also a pickup truck and every gear head in America knows the importance of having a pickup truck to your fleet of vehicles and and a S10 or any other GM small pickups are probably the biggest asset in your fleet. For that engine theirs a guys who done the most incredible work I ever seen for that engine on UA-cam and was very detailed in his description of do and don't while porting the manifold and head to the MAX. Reply back to me and I will reply to you his channel name and just sit back and enjoy. He was doing for his buddy's Typhoon. Wait that truck has a 4.3 like mine. Anyway let me know if you want more info and he replies back with great detail if your serious about really doing or about to. Grand National has that engine so it's best to watch my buddy's videos. It's a lot of work though and isn't worth the time and effort if your not doing a cam,forced induction of your choice, or both. Also stroke the crank if possible and the sleeper you will have will be a beast depending on the setup you have. Way faster than you can imagine.
Christopher Kimpel hell yes port that bitch is it a supercharged one? people mop v8s all day with 3800s they are sick engines
4.3 a good motor and hell im a ford guy id say port intake and heads
How did you guys get on the 4.3...The question was about porting a 3.8
How deep into the manifold do you port? Only the first couple inches?
yeah for a match you just go as far as you need to in order to have a clean match
The Fab Forums would it benefit to go further and do as much as you can reach?
I love the " Did you run into Daddy's car?" That was great !!!
lol
good stuff. ..looking forward to Fridays video ..
+Joe hardwick will be up at 8 am est
put a foxbody on a frame and fourlink front and rear axles and make a crawler
+kenny hamann haha....its a thought
I want one of those hats man what do I need to do to buy one
+jeremy grant I should have a limited batch for sale in the next few weeks over on the killfab.com site. I have had a ton of request so I will let everyone know when they are available.
Thank you for all the info given on your channel! I'm motivated by your video kudos to you and keep bringing the videos.
awesome, thanks
is there any particular size bits for that job?
+Berto Caban The type bit tends to be personal prefference. I would stick with the 1/4 inch shanks though.
Had to sawzall some cheap but thick POS aluminum wheels off of a Z32 300ZX at a u-pick. Wonder if the WD40 would've helped me out. :p
+DiligentTom probably would have...did the aluminum clog the teeth on the blade?
It did, but I stuck the blade in the tire to scrub it off. Worked okay, but in the rare event that I have to do that again, I'll bring the WD.
I've yet to find anything anywhere to suggest a sawzall blade FOR aluminum. I was using a steel blade, then switched to a demo blade (wood + nails), because I was pretty damn sure that the fewer teeth per inch would do better in aluminum.
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Alright, so whats the cost vs HP return when comparing porting to an already high flow manifold? Why go through the pain in the ass to port one when so many exist now that are designed to have massive channels?
they all have to be port matched...massive channel or not. I wasn't porting in this video I was just matching the intake ports to the cylinder head ports.
If someone wouldn't mind telling me why you would port something? Much appreciated
+Matthew Supples In short- allows for better flow of gasses, more flow=more fuel able to burn, more power.
Caleb Marttinen gotcha, thank you very much.
+Matthew Supples also it helps a tad more to use sand drums to polish the runners too, its not much but helps sooth out the air flow just that little bit more. if you gain say 10hp for porting polishing will give you 1 more basically
you don't really want your intake runners polished because it stops turbulence, which is kind of important
in a 3.6 v6 depending on the car you are looking at 10-20 whp
At some point I'm getting to it just need to get a marine intake.
hey dad, can you turbocharge my barbie truck? lol, good video dude
lol
For being a California, I never would of guessed with that accent lol. Very informational vid though.
+Hamo_Cyde lol...its been awhile
Id really like to see all your go karts :P
+ken6x lol...I dont have any of them anymore
Good job awesome video
Gotta have good tunes! How about some safety glasses? Jeesh.
Porting done on a tea table...😜
Like your style .. well done ...
thanks
your baby was scared by your hand @9:30 🤣🤣
ZOOMED Production Why would you say something like that.
Anthony Lodico did you watched? anyway what problem with what i said? i just said baby was scared when he put his hand up.
The kids made this one awesome
+kyridgejumper glad you dig it
Name of song and band?
bad ass song
www.hustlestandard.com
real wrenchers rejoice! hope your lovely daughters grow to breathe your air. amen to the car gods.
thanks
Great content. Good quality vid! The WD-40 was the “ah ha” moment. Subscribed. Btw, What’s the electronic song at 00:50?
thanks....the music was something from No Copyright Sounds
Great information
thanks
just came across this, great vid. I'm also a sc boy.
sweet...where at Nick?
+The Fab Forums I'm in Greenville. more specifically fountain inn lol.
gotcha
How old is the boy, 1 year? God i miss that. Im 25 with two.
+Crusty Crab he is 4 months old...he is big for his age
No shit! Congrats man. Love the video
Nice vid
+Elwin Priem Thanks
The spakiky stuff! That makes the vid purrfect!
All that and didn't get to see it done wtaf 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 don't care about kids or the long story got my own 2 Bratz driving me mad haha 😂😂😂😂
aww... great vid man
+Brian Knox thanks
excellent job bro.! greetings from Argentina..!!
Thanks....greetings
Duuddee........kids are freakin awesome 😃💪🏼😎
lol...thanks
I heard cable tie the drill on
mine has a button lock
We're a dying breed, men who love working with their hands on their own clock.
true statement
family first that's the method 🖒
agree
View number 20.000, nice.
sweet
What part of s.c you live in? I live in conway.
Im in the Upstate near Clemson
cool, thanks for the reply keep the vids coming God bless
+Rocky Bernardi no problem
Gracias por compartir sañudos de México!!!
Gracias
ty for the video 😎😎😎😎😎😎
thanks for watching
Good tip on the WD40 for lubricant, looks like you got it matched up and blended back pretty nicely!
+🔥Ramsey Customs - turbocobra thanks
Agreed 100%. I haven't seemed to need the help much with my carbide burrs since I went with single cut rather than double cut. It's supposed to be better for aluminum. Seems to be true. They never clog up, but they haven't seen tons of use either. Buying the cheaper double cut burrs would buy a LOT of WD-40 to prevent galling. LOL
ATF works very well also.
0:34 music kicks in* thought I was watching a Ford commercial
The MOST important thing in porting( as a porter) is get the right intake first! 2nd, have the right tools that works best for YOU, not someone else. I only use air tools to remove unwanted bulk. For the important part I use a FOREDOM foot controlled unit. They are expensive for the USA made Foredom but NO SHORTCUTS.Have a plan/theory. Don't cut metal just to cut metal. If you don't know what to do, just port match everything and leave it at that. You can always go back at a later date.
I have a background in Physics and have build engines that have set 14 land speed records, won AMA titles and put smiles on many a face!
One thing to remember, velocity is more important than volume!
true dat
Steve Solo who are you?
Your not al Teague are you ? And I'm being serious
He's gasket matching right
Your children are beutiful!!!!!!!!!
I was watching this video, as I ported my Intake Manifold. I've been using hand Filers, pretty easy since mines Aluminum as well. Then smoothing it out with another filer. Great Video
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Nice job. Cute kids.
+RetroWeld thanks
I do basically the same and have done a number of heads and intakes. Electric high speed to rough everything in, regular ol' slow drill to finish/detail. Sit my ass down w/ some music just like you show...except I put hearing protection over the earbuds...kills my ears otherwise. I find there's a certain meditative quality to this kinda work.
yeah for sure
I started out to do the same thing to my 350 small block. I'm using an Edelbrock intake manifold and Fel-Pro gaskets as my guide. The gaskets are much larger than the intake port. Like you, I would have to remove a great deal of material to get the intake manifold to match the gasket. When I put the same fel-pro gasket on my cylinder heads, the port shape of the gasket is much larger than the cylinder head opening. If I make the intake manifold port the same as the felpro, there will be a great deal of mismatch between the intake manifold and the cylinder head port. If, and when I bolt the manifold to the heads, the mismatch will be significant. What I'm wondering.... with all this mismatch between the manifold and head, won't the disruption of flow hurt the efficiency and performance? I think it will. Oh, I'm using AFR ported 180 cylinder heads with the 2.02 and 1.6 valves.
Rob Macfarlane Hey what's up just going through his comments for answers to some my questions and was wondering how did you make out and which of the 2 parts was larger than the other. You said mismatched but didn't specify which one was larger,smaller, and I would love to know the end result? Did you change the valves because of the problem or they stayed the same? Looking forward to your reply and if you have the time to can you write the details. Thanks and have a great day.
The intake runner should always be ported smaller than the gasket. Just make them equal and square them up. If the heads are ported right, there will be a taper into the port that will compensate for typical misalignment.
I found that if you use a scribe instead of a marker..it gives you a better shot of a closer and better cut match..hope it helps someone..
I would agree with that
Instead of using WD40, you can get blocks of bees wax that works better and last longer. Works great for any aluminum work, even on sandpaper!
I like to have the heads on the block torque the gaskets down, mark it all, undo it scribe the intake Glue gasket back on the head on the marks. After you cut the intake, tourqe it back down and check it with bore scope you will be happy. I used to do them without that until I found on some heads I was having overhang. They look good though.
Get yourself a high quality variable speed electric die grinder. I've got an old corded quarter inch Milwaukee that I've had for around 40 years. I use it with a speed controller. It may be a little bit of an investment, but it's a tool that you will use all the time once you have it. Also, pick yourself up a good old can or tube of quality grinder grease. You can use the WD-40 to keep the residue down while you're working.
FYI,,, gasket matching provides very little (if any) gain! (unless the head has a smaller opening than the manifold, then it's worth doing. Opening that up, can hurt more than help b/c the air slows down when it hits that larger cross section.
Just saying... Always enjoy your videos though. Rock on.
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Yeah for me its not so much about performance....and more about doing it right
I think for this job it would have been better to use a cylindrical tree file instead of a oval since the oval one removes material inconsistently meanwhile the cylindrical one would be straight all the way through. . .
Three is such a fun age! When my son was young, I would read to him at bedtime a book called My Race Car. He had it memorized. So I would improvise new lines or plot twists. He loved that. Now speaking of twists, I'm into a unique off-road build based upon a T5 swap into a Vanagon. Custom 4X4 "sin crow." Pretty soon I will start a build thread on TheSamba.
+Kevin Hornbuckle sounds very interesting
Well, we'll see. The idea is for my son to have a reliable and fast travel/camping rig. He is a trombonist in music school. During summers he can get good work in west coast music festivals between San Francisco and Bellingham.
I tried to subcribe to the channel and found out I was already subscribed. Its good to see you take the fear out of diy porting