History of the ported VW head? Styles that have come and went....
Jim M:
Is Fumio still in buisness?
Sarge:
Quote from: Jim M on June 24, 2009, 03:08:05 am
Is Fumio still in buisness?
Fumio Fukaya Enterprises
4000 S Alamo St.
Riverside, Ca 92501
909 784-1251
You better hook up quick though.... he has arthritis in his hands pretty bad last I heard.
ESH:
I tried to buy some FF heads a while back but the guy didn't want to deal out of State (is it very difficult to get parts from the Mid-West to California? :P ). I was planning on paying the asking but they were still up for sale at a reduced price over a month later but whatever I would like a to have a pair at some point, to me his heads are way up there with the best of the old school. Not quite the same but no longer available I have some Pauter B's which may yet go back on an engine at some point. They were swapped out of my engine but I still have a thing about running them again.
Jim Ratto:
Quote from: axam48ida on November 01, 2007, 05:07:14 am
I had some heads done in the seventies and eighties that were Autocraft stage 1,2,3,4 and those
wicked billet 3 piece heads.....stage 5....the early heads had a D shape and later as they welded them more the
stage three had a real large "D" to the stage 4 having more of a square port....and the Fives were just huge oval shape
then after that was the pro series "910".....I still have a couple sets of those early ones, but we cut them
so much there is no first fin on them.
I have a set of the first street eliminators that are black coated from CB that Kawell did and they are
definatley nice! again we cut them so much the first fin is barely hanging on.
I would like to get a set of Fumio heads just to check out and try ..............
It was the Stage 5 Autocrafts that I remember from the mid 1980's... the "composite" heads. A friend of mine, simply known as "Big Frank" had a set of Stage 3 or 4 A.C.'s in his garage that were used on his little neumann Draeger roundy round car, or WERE going to be used. I actually traded Big Frank my Super Flows with longer valves, etc for a set of those black Street Eliminator "SCS" heads from the 1980's... still wonder what ever happened to those "black heads". They actually didn't run that hard.
Rocket Ron:
what about the scat split port heads, one head per cylinder
seemed to make good power, one of the early 90's brit racers had them on his car but cant remember which one ???
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