Home hand porting LT1 heads.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2000
Posts: 824
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From: Camden SC
Re: Home hand porting LT1 heads. (honas)
Better do the homework. Have the right tools. Develop your skills on some practice heads, ie salvage. It's a time consuming process, unskilled, you screw up heads. Properly done, potential payoff. Heads/valves/cams, that's where it's at. You should consider this part of an integrated process, ie air flow, fuel, computer tuning, etc.
Try Barnes and Noble. Several books deal with SBC engine work. $45 in books can save $1000 or more. Video tapes, tool kits, lots of stuff. With proper research, practice, good tools, can be done. Or, just remove the heads, grab your wallet, and hand em to someone else. If you go down this path, be sure to do further research and see what else will change.
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Try Barnes and Noble. Several books deal with SBC engine work. $45 in books can save $1000 or more. Video tapes, tool kits, lots of stuff. With proper research, practice, good tools, can be done. Or, just remove the heads, grab your wallet, and hand em to someone else. If you go down this path, be sure to do further research and see what else will change.
dlmelyers 90 coupe zf6 3 speed shocks
Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2000
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Re: Home hand porting LT1 heads. (dlmeyers)
Good advice from dlmeyers! :yesnod:
If the LT1 casting is as bad as the L98...it's worth doing a P&P on.
If the LT1 casting is as bad as the L98...it's worth doing a P&P on.
