AI heads that much better than Home ported?
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Re: AI heads that much better than Home ported?
Originally Posted by Dave88LX
If you look over the site, you can have just the porting done for the same price as your buddy.
I'll probably need to contact him, but if I can disassemble my heads and ship them, have him port/polish mine and be capable of the HP/TQ numbers on his site for... $450 you saw on there?
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Re: AI heads that much better than Home ported?
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Re: AI heads that much better than Home ported?
There's definitely more to heads than just the flow #s at .600" lift. AI will most offer you a good combination overall to keep your heads streetworthy. A race head that offers huge peak numbers might be good for the track, but you want good overall flow #s combined with small ports to give you a really good powerband. For instance, a head that flows well at .3, .4 lift but bad at .6 may actually be able to pull in more air than a head that only does good at .5, .6 when you're talking about an engine made for the street. That combined with a non-monster intake port (you want torque below 4000 rpms, don't you? 
) will get you a set of heads that will beat the crap out of some heads that were made and advertised only for peak flow #s. A good cam to go with that and you'll have an engine that will impress you at 3k rpms and 6k. People seem to forget that it's not about the biggest of everything that you can get, but the right combination of parts.
) will get you a set of heads that will beat the crap out of some heads that were made and advertised only for peak flow #s. A good cam to go with that and you'll have an engine that will impress you at 3k rpms and 6k. People seem to forget that it's not about the biggest of everything that you can get, but the right combination of parts.
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Re: AI heads that much better than Home ported?
Originally Posted by 97Z-M6
he can get more than that on the intake side. and another thing is that a real porter will flow the head and only be a .5% diference in each runner.
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Re: AI heads that much better than Home ported?
They just updated thier website, so it looks like the "porting only" part is now missing. Just give them a call or email them. They have far and above the best customer service I have encountered.
Ron gets back to his emails usually within a couple of hours...so just send them an email about the porting only cost, but I beleive it was 500 or high 400s.
-Sean
Ron gets back to his emails usually within a couple of hours...so just send them an email about the porting only cost, but I beleive it was 500 or high 400s.
-Sean
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Re: AI heads that much better than Home ported?
Originally Posted by bdc95ta
how's loyd doing by the way. Is he accepting heads again?
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hes doing fine he called me yestarday and told me my heads are done and i could come get them. he said he was going to flow them today, and exspected ral good low mid lifts numbers since i put new seat and 2.05 vavles
but yes he is excepting work.
1-972-617-5671
ive got his cell # to but dont think i should give it out.
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