I just got this back the other day i wanna know if everything looks good.

http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q256/sr73087/

 

 

i dont really have a good eye for it. What do you mean exactly by the sad face ?

 

that looks pretty ugly
looks like you let a 5 year old port it and most likely destroyed a perfectly good head.

 

its smoother than it looks. The pics are not too great. What are you refering to exactly ? And please if it looks like **** then it looks like ****, just say it. I dont want to go back to this guy if his work sucks you know.

 

I have never seen a ported and polished head before in real life (or know much about them) but I don't think that is the best job. I have seen some other people's pics and they are S-H-I-N-Y!!! Sorry Yours kind of looks scratched in a way... and rough.

 

were it should be gasket matched is not smooth and round its got like dents in it and looks kind of egged shaped. The real power is gonna be made were the port bends down into the cylinder and around the valve seat depending on how good of a valve job was done.

 

who did the work?
heres what an alaniz head looks like. (taken from roskos thread, hope you don't mind)


look at where your gasket sits, it looks like he completely messed up the shape of the port.

 

i see exactly what your saying

 

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yes sir. really shouldn't even be touched clear out by the port opening like that, especially up by the injector area like that.

 

man those pictures just say it all.. that's horrible.

 

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The intake port should not be smooth. The semi-roughness of it keeps the fuel mixture suspended before it enters the cylinder by creating a thin, turbulent layer. If you polished an intake port and made it "S-H-I-N-Y", the fuel would not stay suspended and would puddle up. Exhaust ports are the ones you will sometimes see polished.

The combustion chamber also looks to have had some work done to it. The unshrouding of the valves looks decent and will help low lift flow numbers, but the valve job doesn't look the best. I don't see many angles at all.

Hope that helps.

 

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well he slaughtered the ports, did what looks like a single 45 degree cut for a valve job, fyi honda does a 3 angle OEM on our heads. And then did a pretty sorry job of cleaning the thing, look at the spark plug tubes.

I hope you didn't pay much for that, was it some local shop?

 

he didnt touch the valve seat. Spark plug tubes are clean, idk maybe its the picture. Im not defending the job at all its just that i think some things may be hard to see in pictures.

 

next time take it to either alaniz or portflow

 

yes i cant agree more. So would that head even work correctly now ?

 

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well he slaughtered the ports, did what looks like a single 45 degree cut for a valve job, fyi honda does a 3 angle OEM on our heads. And then did a pretty sorry job of cleaning the thing, look at the spark plug tubes.

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What is wrong with the ports besides the fact that it wasnt gasket matched properly ?

 

the head should work fine even if the ports dont match.

 

ok so what am i telling this guy when i bring this head back to him. Besides it sucks

 

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tell him he owes you money for a new head because he fubared the ports?

 

so who did this? and how much did you pay?

 

If you need a job done like that i would do it for $50 bucks... Allthow that wouldbe my 1st ever port... j/p Eather he was drunk while doing it or it was his 1st time.

 

Just slap it on and run it! It's not as bad as some guys make it out to be. This is H-T, where everyone else's ******* stink, except their own. And if it ain't name brand, it ain't gonna work.

As for your intake ports, have him match your intake manifold ports to it as well. Looks like he tried to raise the ceiling a bit and ported it out to get a more direct flow into the chambers. You'll kill velocity, but it might work for boost applications. Every head guy has their own tricks of the trade. If in doubt, have him put the head on a flow bench to back up his work.

 

just run it the way it is i know you'll be fine!! when you get a better head thenmatch the ports on the intake.

 

so many porters i have seen B/S there flow numbers to make them look legit