Race with original heads

[Tom G.]

that is really really nice work...i have working on 1951ccm engine with ported stock heads,40 DRLA,324° german cam, my car weight 750 kg and drive 15,8 s with stock mexican gearbox...that is to slow..then i saw your experiences...i have to go for bigger carbs etc...but wants also get best HP with stock heads....It is  also the fact for me  of missing money for really high quality parts thats right...:-)

i know a guy he drive a 2275ccm engine with stock valves and really nice ported heads and make 174 HP @ 5800 upm, it functioned....

Bye bye
Tom

[ugly duckling]

congrats on winning very  . i see you have the 043 heads very good casting very good material. engine soundes healthy looks like your having fun keep it up.    yours truly  the ugly duckling.

[Jim Ratto]

I posted a few pics in the 88 x 74 post, but here again is a pic of the heads I am working on for Sheep's 1800cc street motor.

[John Rayburn]

The best of both worlds.

[nicolas]

how cool is this!

very nice post.

[Bewitched666]

My first 1700cc engine ran stock ported and polished heads
ran w120 cam,1:25 rockers
chromo pushrods
40mm dells
straightcut gears
melling oil pump with filter(not full flow)
berg 1.5 quart sump
88 cima pistons
and stock 1600 gearbox with bugpack superdiff

Car was stock weight and ran in the 15's

[Jim Ratto]

My first 1700cc engine ran stock ported and polished heads
ran w120 cam,1:25 rockers
chromo pushrods
40mm dells
straightcut gears
melling oil pump with filter(not full flow)
berg 1.5 quart sump
88 cima pistons
and stock 1600 gearbox with bugpack superdiff

Car was stock weight and ran in the 15's

sounds like cool engine

Frank's (sheep) motor isn't going to be a racing motor. More of a backroads "sports car" motor. 1800cc (88 x 74), 8.2:1, those heads pictured above (but finished) 48IDAs, V26 Engle, 1-1/2" merge, 1.4 rockers, 010 Bocsh

[Diederick/DVK]

looks like a good prospect to me, stanford!

p.s. why just a superdiff? did it make a lot of difference?
just wondering if you'd recommend the upgrade?

[ugly duckling]

cool jim. its nice to see you makeing some chips. i got a few pair that need to be done can i drop them off at 9 and getem by 5. come on its ez just goin there and cut a littel hear and a littel there and a littel hear and a littel there. you know. no sweat right. any way done by 5 right oh and all i have to pay you with is some food stamps and some aluminum cans is that ok i hope so. so there still going to be done at 5 right  keep up the good work my freind take care.oh and btw i want them like this. is that possilble it better be i am paying you well ya know. have a good one jim. also keep up the great port work markus.UD.

[Udo]

These look like they where made for Gene Berg speardport manifolds ? I have done this once and it is a lot of work but you can keep the original heads . I still have one pair of manifolds !!

Udo

[Jim Ratto]

cool jim. its nice to see you makeing some chips. i got a few pair that need to be done can i drop them off at 9 and getem by 5. come on its ez just goin there and cut a littel hear and a littel there and a littel hear and a littel there. you know. no sweat right. any way done by 5 right oh and all i have to pay you with is some food stamps and some aluminum cans is that ok i hope so. so there still going to be done at 5 right  keep up the good work my freind take care.oh and btw i want them like this. is that possilble it better be i am paying you well ya know. have a good one jim. also keep up the great port work markus.UD.

Hey Jeff, are those my new heads?  Are they done yet? can I pay you with pizza or something? 

Thanks Jeff, my long time friend Sheep asked me to goof around with the die grinder and his heads. Who knows what will happen!!! I made a template that I thought might work back in the old days out of a Type 3 phenolic intake base, then transferred it to head, and tried making the port as "straight" into valve pocket as possible, without making any holes thru. I tried leaving a "shoulder" at base of long side of port, as I have seen this done on some heads that "worked" and also so the spring doesn't poke into floor of intake port. 

Sure is a mess and a lot of work!! I ported my own street eliminators back in 1994 and got my car into 13's on bald street tires. I forgot how much messy work this is.

Hope you are doing good too, I still need to come down there and feed you a lunch. Maybe we can go around the block at the Toy Cruise?

see buddy
Jim

[Bewitched666]

Diederick way back i didnt know much about vw engines and gearboxes but i was told to make both the tires spin i needed a superdiff for better traction.
I also installed a berg solid gearboxmount.
Later i installed a better box from Dave Folts with hardened axels.

Funny now that i think of,i even installed chains on the front shocks so that the car wouldnt lift to much in the front,haha

[dyno don]

wow...just noticed this and want to say>>OUTSTANDING VIDEO CLIP..!!    this is what gets my blood flowing the way i like it...sounded great all the way from the bottom to the top of the rpm band to 7K... and looked awesome with the white wisp of smoke in the air ...aaahhh....congrats on this...simple// effective//and old school performance..!!  thanks...

[streetvwnorr]

Thanks, Dyno don! I have uploaded the two first films (Ready & Pite) to my site again.

And here is the 13,09s/162km/h run from last summer at Fällfors.

http://www.streetvw.se/filmer/fallfors.wmv


//M

[BeetleBug]

Your videos are classics! Fantastic! Love your shrink and heat process and especially the tools used.  Im laughing my ass off!