Maybe this ain't quite the right section, but at least it's a new topic.
Who's got some experience with local (read Australian) Head Porters? I'm getting a little old and don't have access to the fancy gear I did in my younger years; so I'm considering having a mild job done on my heads. I've run the figures and I should gain some legs in the top end without losing anything in the bottom with a mild job.
I'm not interested in anyone who cuts out the exhaust guide boss on a street head - they obviously just have the equipment, not any real-life esperience.
P.S. I don't really mind if this turns into another argument: I find the flames from the inexperienced quite amusing...
I had my headwork done at Crankshaft Engineering here in Brisbane. Dave and Craig both have extensive experience and knowledge on vw engines, have the flow bench to eliminate the guess work. You can spend lots of cashola trying to improve the flow or can just do a mild tidy up like I had done on my typeIV heads.
He has done my heads but heas has done Jaks, 1303's (Paul) Deiters , that 2.8L type 4 heaps.
He can squeeze good power out.
Alex (his son) is posting here now (one of the 16yo who SHOULD be at school and wont read this till tonight) you can ask him or i should be having sherberts with him this arvo.
I agree with Baz, Richard has quite a reputation for porting heads. He has a set of 42x37 044's from Cb that he has ported at the moment in his workshop & they look better than the CNC ones!
regards
Jak
Congratulations to Ben Durie for breaking the hillclimb record at Ringwood in his stroker beetle!
I gotta make a comment, jakriz: a hand - porting job should always beat CNC. The advantage of CNC is that it's cheap and repeatable. I'm not knocking it's capabilities for an affordable improvement, but it's disadvantages are actually too numerous to list here (including, Australia's market is not large enough for a competitive price.)
