Where to get Heads P/P and Cam ???'s

**AborTivE** · 02-11-2009, 10:52 AM

I picked up a set of 243's from my buddy's '06 GTO. I'm looking to get them ported and polished, but not sure where a good place to have it done at around here. Any ideas? I live in southern Kansas. I'm looking to go FI in the future, nothing over 8 lbs of boost, and was also wondering what would be a good cam to go with. Something that is going to work well with or without FI, or at least get me by till I get FI.

I don't need anything monsterous, just something better than stock. The car isn't set up to be a drag car, but more of a road course / autoX car. I guess it's not just good enough taking curves on the R1, I gotta do it in the car too, lol

**mark21742** · 02-12-2009, 01:22 AM

if you have access to a good compressor you could port&nd polish the heads yourself. it took me about 5 hours to do mine with the right tools. Eastwood sells all the bits and attachments to do the job.
you could go with a wide range of cams for forced induction I'd stay with a 114-116lsa low overlap with a longer exhaust duration.

**UTVols98** · 02-16-2009, 11:32 PM

Search a cylinder head shop around there. Otherwise, send them off to one of the sponsors speed shops that sell ported heads of their own. I highly recommend you not to port your own heads unless you know what you are doing.

**mark21742** · 02-17-2009, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by UTVols98

Search a cylinder head shop around there. Otherwise, send them off to one of the sponsors speed shops that sell ported heads of their own. I highly recommend you not to port your own heads unless you know what you are doing.

I can tell you if I didn't have cutout head section, I probably would have gone right into the coolant passage that dips around the exaust spring seat

**AborTivE** · 02-17-2009, 07:09 AM

I deffinately don't plan on doing it myself. Just not comfortable doing something I know could royally mess up. Especially when I've never done it before. I've been asking around, and I'm getting some leads. Just need to talk to some more people.

**UTVols98** · 02-18-2009, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by mark21742

I can tell you if I didn't have cutout head section, I probably would have gone right into the coolant passage that dips around the exaust spring seat

At least you can weld aluminum. I've got a friend porting some 5.3's for me right now. He used his 5.3 heads as a test dummy and did the same thing. He's got it down now so I trust him. It's a lot of work to port. I definitely wouldn't have the patience to do it.

**mark21742** · 02-18-2009, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by UTVols98

At least you can weld aluminum. I've got a friend porting some 5.3's for me right now. He used his 5.3 heads as a test dummy and did the same thing. He's got it down now so I trust him. It's a lot of work to port. I definitely wouldn't have the patience to do it.

5 strait hours......my back, arms and hands all hurt after, but in the end it was worth it. I was shocked at the size of the pile of metal that I got out of it.
but in a weird way it was kind of fun and now I can say I did it myself

**AborTivE** · 02-19-2009, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by UTVols98

At least you can weld aluminum. I've got a friend porting some 5.3's for me right now. He used his 5.3 heads as a test dummy and did the same thing. He's got it down now so I trust him. It's a lot of work to port. I definitely wouldn't have the patience to do it.

I don't have the patience either, lol