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12-20-2004, 09:32 AM | #1 |
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I am having some problems finding a 1" flap wheel.... Any suggestions? I went to Wal Mart, Lowes and Menards.
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Ok, found a 1" flap wheel at NAPA, back to work..........
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Cutting open the bottom
To add a bit more to the porting information sharing. Here are
some pictures of those velocity stacks after the bottom is removed. This is where most of the casting flash is left behind on the sand casted intake. These intakes are made from several Half's you might call them. The seams all come together at the bottom, on the inside of the intake. This leaves much to be desired in the flow of air to those runners. The surface finish is the shape or roughness of the sand used to make the casting with. An injection molded plastic intake would have been the best way to go. But its to costly for Ford to produce for such low manufacturing volume. They have finally made that leap with the 05 GT. I work on "Camry" intake molds every night at work and study the flow mechanics of it. While its not a hod rod car part, its quite a nice piece of work. All the runners are like an Extrude hone finish. And there are absolutely no obstructions in the air flow path like our Mach-1's. As Nazman said, its not the velocity of the incoming air charge. Its the volume of air the intake is being choked out of. By the way, Pauls high performance does both. Cuts open the intake, Extrude hones and then ports the rest by hand. $1,250 plus your core. Good luck with the grinding. And where your safety glasses at all times.
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12-21-2004, 06:20 AM | #4 |
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So how do you put the intake back together after you cut the bottom off? Seems like a fairly hard aluminium weld job.
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"TACH9" over at the Mach-1.org is gearing up for a port and polish intake comparson test soon after the new year. I believe he is looking to get a hold of a "PHP" , "SHM" , an Extrude hone version, mine and maybe Naz man if he can work it out? This should be a real good evaluation as they have done many good quality write ups in the past with popular bolt on's. Stay tuned!!!
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Looks good. I did mine a few weeks ago.
http://www.mach1registry.org/forums/...ad.php?t=27086
Here's the link. The pics show what I did to the lid as well. Also, Naz's comments are good. But I didn't have the nads yet to cut the bottom off. Maybe next time. As for power increase, I couldn't really tell, but I don't drive the car everyday. It always feels fast to me. I hope to dyno or get to the track soon. Nick
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Now that would disspell any rumors of performance. That is what I like - FACTS and comparisons.
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Ok now that Christmas confusion is over, back to porting. I have my new plug caps on order and I am contemplating cutting the bottom of the intake off. I have a friend who TIG welds and can put it back together for me. The only requests he made were a very straight, smooth cut and a perfectly clean intake. No oil, grease or grime present. Anyone can let me know the pro's and con's to this. I would also like to know the brand name of the epoxy we can use to glue also.
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Well sad news today I called PHP and talked to Paul. He said the spacers are still probably 2 weeks away.... So I decided to port a little more on the intake and I cracked it.
Just kidding I decided to cut it so I could fully realize the potential of the porting. So I will be working on it a lot more tonight and hopefully I can have a finished product. I also talked to the machine shop tonight and he said TIG welding it was most likely out of the question. He predicted a lot of cracks would form in the cast section. Anyone have experience with this? So I decided to epoxy it back together, but I need the name of a good epoxy to use. I will send out PM's to Nazman and Orange later tonight. Well back to sanding. Now with 3 times the access of your average intake! Oh I also finally tracked down some Dorman Cap Plugs....
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I was a few seconds away from doing this myself. Then last Year Mike Dez Racing out of Mass. tried tuning in a recently ported, polished, extrude honed Mach1 intake & couldnt find a nickel more of power over what they already had with the spacer & exhaust & CAI etc.. They got the PHP $1200 deal & did some other "work" while they had it all apart.. After it was all said & done they couldnt make anymore power than what they had before..
Maybe the Superchips tuning software has more to it now that can take advantage etc. but last year they couldnt do anything with it using Superchips tuning & his Dyno.. these guys have seen gains from good port/polishing before & the pieces they got back from PHP looked awesome but no gains found?? They tried everything on the dyno they could think of & nottin seemed to help at the time.. The guy who owns the car is a member here on the registry. Not sure if they ever got anything out of it to this day.. It was as though the Mach1's intake just didnt need it.. Maybe Dave will update us on that deal.. Im still interested & the winter IS going by pretty slow! For $450 id like to at least try it to see how it goes on mine
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Let me tell you, cutting the bottom off is the only way to go. It allows you to go full circle into the ports and feel every imperfection. It also allows for better shaping of the 'horn'. Right now I am on 'medium' grit emery cloth and 120 grit sanding drums. I have gone as deep as I can into the ports so now I am smoothing out some of my divots and doing final shaping of the horns. Time to eat then get back at it. Thanks for all the comments so far. I hope this may be of some use to people.
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Re: Going to start my port and polish of my intake tonight
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That's weird, but according to PHP's description of their intake job you SHOULD get 18-25 HP, but even more importantly, and beneficial (in my opinion) is the ability to hit your powerband 500 RPM's sooner. Are the dyno results showing this? That's my question.
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Also...what is it about that intake job that lowers your powerband? Are other company's intake jobs providing the same results? Would we see the these results by doing it ourselves? Maybe it's time to give PHP a call.
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What is PHP Phone #? Thanks in advance. I am planinng on doing mine next fall.
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awesome thread - looking forward to the finished up pics - two thumbs up
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Not matter what you do inside the manifold, if you dont shorten the runner length you will not drasticly raise peak HP RPM... IMO, thats the major killer of the potential power. However, I am definately interested to see what gains are realized by all his hard work. Its definately looking good.
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Hmm lets see if this posts...
and well now they work... didn't work last night..... Anyway, I have started working on the horn flare and blending it in down the bore of the runners. You can see where I still have to smooth out and remove some more metal. I am on a medium grit emory cloth and 120 grit drums. I have to widen the holes further into the center support yet and get the flare to the edge of the horn. This is taking some time but it is looking better. The pictures capture EVERY imperfection Trust me they are definately bigger then when I started and they are a hell of a lot smoother. More pics later tonight.
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Re: Going to start my port and polish of my intake tonight
Well I think I am pretty much done !! I am going to hit it with the 120 grit flap wheel and call it quits. Before I started I could barely get 2 fingers side by side down the runners. Now they fit with room to spare. The last couple days I was trying to figure out a method to do some slight work inside the radius bend but to no avail. Of course I could go buy a extrude hone machine......
Here are some pics. Now to duct tape the intake back together and pray for my PHP spacer to be delivered....
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Wow! Great post!
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Re: Going to start my port and polish of my intake tonight
I haven't seen the dyno curves, but my guess is that the powerband is actually widened. So it might come in 500 rpm lower but it doesn't give up Anything on the top. The only way the powerband as a whole could be lowered is if the runners were being lengthened. Some have said that's what the spacer does, but i don't buy that. The spacer might very slightly lengthen the air path (3/8"), but only in the upper plenum and the 6 connecting passages down to the lower plenum. The runners from the lower plenum to the heads are the ones that control the powerband due to their design (length and area).
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Re: Going to start my port and polish of my intake tonight
OK time to put this project to bed. I am done porting it. I know there is a little more metal to be removed but I am running up against a new work deadline so I must call it quits. I have a guy at work who is going to TIG weld it for me. He has welded on cast before but wants to check how much sand is in it first before trying. He does not want to risk messing it up. If he says it's a no go then I will epoxy it back together. Here are a couple parting shots hopefully the next ones will be re-assembly. Of course to finish the job I need to explode my PHP spacer form their vendors hands.... sigh....
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