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Post your pics of your 4 port head and the work you've done to it. I'll start with my un-modified head.
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:wtf2: Wicked :naughty:

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what the hell are you doing to that head???

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Cutting it up to see where the coolant/oil passages are so that when you start doing port work on another head, you know how much material you can remove.

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float_6969 wrote:Cutting it up to see where the coolant/oil passages are so that when you start doing port work on another head, you know how much material you can remove.
Yes, it can be used for that purpose too, but i just wanted the flanges.

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Here is mine.
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Nuff said.

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Exhaust valve seat opened up 1mm

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The un-modified head I posted earlier with it's current gasket match, polishing, 4 angle grind on the exhaust port with back cut valve, and radius cut on the intake ports and back cut valves.

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