Waiting out the Nor-Easter here on the Eastern Shore, VA. Can't work. So I started porting my head. This head is a 1g head off an n/t block.

I read the nice little write up here about mild porting your 1g head. Great stuff. I can see how there would be a gain. The valve bowls are hardly conducive to smooth flow. There's imperfections, lips, and other stuff going on right where the port...

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Here's a few pics of how I avoid hours of porting yet still eliminate that terrible "down-step" going from a 2g manifold to any 7cm^2 turbine housing (16g, 18g, 20g). It involves a piece of 2" galvanized pipe from Lowe's or home depot.



A 2g manifold has...

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***EDIT: In the interest of keeping all my junk about this in actually one link, I'm jsut going to update this through "comments". I've inserted my other blogs related to this with the comments option, too.***

As my (mis)-fortune would have it, I have inherited a B-E-A-utiful 1991 AWD Eclipse shell. The pictures will speak for themselves. This was my brothers a/t car that he is tired...

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