Porting stock heads

[Vip18971]

Originally Posted by 83GTMUSTANG

It Depends On What What Your Trying To Do With Them,..... Most Heads That People Use Aint Flow Tested Anyway They Just Want A Little More Power Out Of Them. And If People Want 400-600 Hp They Would Not Waste Time Getting Stock Heads Ported, Shave, Milled, Bowls Blended, New Valves, New Springs, Ect... All That Money......they Could Have Just Went An Got Some Edel's, Afr's, Holley's, Ect....right.........so Poeple Including My Self Just Want A Little Extra Power Out Of What We Already Got (stock Heads)!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats EXACTLY what I want from the 302. I mean a little more power will come form a mild cam (not expensive), an intake (I need a carbed intake anyways), a decent carb (nothing special) and spray (which will be put on the 351 engine anyways. Keeping costs down and I should make a decent amount of power with that setup, eh?

[rwhite65]

a flow bench would be ideal, but really is not needed here. Kinda kills the whole fun of doing it old school style anyhow. But what I would recommend, is finding a friend whom you can trust has been around this block a few times. That way he (or she) can show you a few tricks here or there. You can use a guage, kinda looks like an adjustable T, and use it to check the dimensions of your ports to see how close you are keeping them.

I ported mine also, although the engine is not installed yet, but I can't wait!!
Ryan