History of the ported VW head? Styles that have come and went....
Matt H:
Lonnie Reed Square ports anyone
stealth67vw:
Quote from: 1970 on June 24, 2009, 20:36:18 pm
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.
Didn't Jason Popper end up with those?
Jim Ratto:
Quote from: stealth67vw on June 25, 2009, 05:54:46 am
Quote from: 1970 on June 24, 2009, 20:36:18 pm
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.
Didn't Jason Popper end up with those?
my Super Flows yeah, not the black SE heads. I think they went on that 2276 that was built @ BH with Engle 110 and 40IDFs and made a scorching 107hp :o ::)
marc1951:
Quote from: Sarge on November 01, 2007, 00:32:40 am
The Underdog ran square-port heads back in the day that were done by Ron Fleming. Then, there were the angle-port heads that Darrell Vittone and Fumio came up with...the angle was at the exhaust port and was a 45 degree bend rather then a 90 degree as in a normal head (wish I had a picture...I tried calling Vittone, but he said they only had this set up for a very short period and had no photos). The next step was welding and I'd like to think it was DV and Fumio who came up with this but I'm not too sure. When I built my sandrail in 1974, Darrell introduced me to Fumio and I ordered two new Type III bare heads through the parts dept at the dealership where I was working at the time. I gave these to Fumio and he did his magic...welded, large intake ports and 40X35.5 valves. These went on a 78.4X92 engine with an Engle 125 and made 155hp @5500 rpm on DV's dyno. I wish to this day I'd never let the car go with those heads. The best part was being charged $275.00 for the weld/port job(a fortune back then ;D). Those were the days...
The way I understand it, Berg read an article in Hot Rod magazine about square port heads on a Pontiac (I think) and thought it might work on VWs as well. Ron Fleming worked for Berg back then so for a while there, the hot setup was the square port head. I remember that when we were thrashing on the Underdog at the races, we covered the heads so no one could see the ports. I believe later it was discovered it was one corner of the square that was doing all the magic so the port shape of choice became a tear drop shape.
Sarge, you got one hell of a deal as about the same time I sent Fumio a set of bare heads with larger valve seats, valves, springs and welded by Auto Craft. After a couple of months, the heads were shipped back COD, all assembled and a beautiful porting job..........$850 labor!!! I had about $1300 invested in those heads total and as you said, a hell of lot of money back in the 70s.
Marc Buehler
51 split
rick m:
Since this post was first made I had to go back through all my early 70's pictures and find a shot I took of Vittone's Race Shop 67 Modified Compact heads. This was taken at a division 7 points race at Sacramento Drag Strip. Dave Andrews had his blue 67 there and if I remember right Darrell had a white 67. This was the first time I had seen the angled ports (sometime around 73'-74' if I remember right. Dave Vanderbeke, the Schley's and many others were there too. It was a great weekend.
Rick Mortensen
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