timm3r said:
im way interested. But what makes your ported header different from a normal diy ported header? i can port my own header for free with a die grinder, what makes yours so much better?
Actually you can't do it for free. Could you do it yourself? Sure. But you're going to have to shell out some bucks for new tools (I am all too painfully aware of how much at this point)
The header is cast iron and steel. Normal dremel and die grinder bits get consumed in a heartbeat. You have to buy specialty porting tools which will cost as much as the cost of what I do. Plus if its your first one its going to take you over 6 hours and the odds of you catching everything I have found that needs to be corrected and duplicating the finish I am able to create is pretty low. Plus teh time spent makes it very difficult to do in a day - your car is going to be down for 2 days at least.
And at the end of it all you will just have to hope its as good as it can be. I'm STILL testing to make sure that when the first ones go up for sale on March first they will make every scrap of power possible. I have already spent a couple hundred bucks on flowbench time alone.
So there you go - drop a couple hundred on some new specialty bits and a high dollar grinder and a compressor that can actually turn it, and then another couple hundred on some flowbench work to make sure that the job you did is every bit as good as it can be. OR you can just buy one from me, KNOW thats its right, KNOW you are getting the most out of the mod, and get it changed out same day without the callouses, cuts and burns to show for it.
BTW - the reason this is as expensive as it is is that I am having to buy $40 in specialty carbide bits and polishing media PER MANIFOLD to ensure the proper surface finish. Anything besides the expensive bits takes 3 times as long and comes out much rougher unless you spend another 3 times as long polishing.
Thats why I was finally willing to post pictures. I realized that even being able to see SOME pictures of the final product, as long as I kept the price reasonable, theres no reason to DIY - its just way too costly and time consuming.