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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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Take a look, do you think I bought poorly?
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| Seller Notes: | “Fully ported y block heads. The part number is ECZ-G. Someone has put a lot of time, effort and money into getting everything they can out of these heads. I don’t know who did the port work but I do know they were professionally ported. I just had these heads checked out at arrow machine in southern ca to see if they were in good enough condition to have them completely rebuilt. The heads checked out ok and aren’t cracked but need to be rebuilt. I’ve decided to spend the money and buy a set of aluminum heads so I no longer need them. The heads come with the valves only” |
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| Modified Item: | Yes | Modification Description: | Fully ported | | Country/Region of Manufacture: | United States | Brand: | Ford | | Material: | Cast Iron | Warranty: | No Warranty | | Type: | Iron heads | Mounting Hardware Included: | No | | Manufacturer Part Number: | ECZ-G | UPC: | Does not apply | |
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By NoShortcuts - 5 Years Ago
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Cliff.
I got this flag from eBay when I clicked your link . . .
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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Well E Bay makes it hard, I bought these for $325.00 plus TAX (!!!) and I have to drive 120 miles round trip
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By NoShortcuts - 5 Years Ago
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Cliff. I'd like to look at the enlarged views of the pictures of the cylinder heads you obtained.
Consider sharing the eBay item number of your purchase. It's located on the right side of the eBay item listing page, usually above or below the 'Item Specifics' advertisement information.
Thanks!
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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Try this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ford-Y-block-heads/264531260862?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
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Estimated delivery Local pickup | Item price | $325.00 | | Quantity | 1 | | Item number | 264531260862 | | Shipping service | Local Pickup |
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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Picked them up today, 1 non posted, 1 posted
 
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By PF Arcand - 5 Years Ago
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Lots of work on them for sure.. I'm not an expert on porting them, but looks like they were intended for Race use..?
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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Well, going on the flow bench, we'll see if their any good, looks to me like the intake bowl is cut wrong, maybe I can correct it with a larger valve (has stock valves now), the SSR on both intake and exhaust looks nice (to me), they may end up on one of my backup race engines.
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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On the flow bench yesterday 235 CFM @ 5.50, 28" of water, high port, bare (no rolled clay), not adjusted for air temp (raw numbers), only had a short time to flow these. work on the dragster took all my time.
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By Lord Gaga - 5 Years Ago
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What's with the shape of those combustion chambers? And are they posted?
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By NoShortcuts - 5 Years Ago
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Lord Gaga. Earlier in this link about the heads he purchased, Cliff indicated that one large letter 'G' cylinder head was posted and one was not.
Regarding these heads that Cliff purchased, I was surprised that where the intake valve guide protruded into the intake port bowl on these heads, the protruding guide material was totally removed as opposed to the cylindrical valve guide body being shaped to direct the air flow in the bowl area under the intake valve head.
NOTE: I'm not a flow-bench supported cylinder head porter. I have observed other individual's porting work where the intake valve protruding guide material has been retained, BUT shaped in a wedge, tear-like shape to direct air flow under the intake valve head.
Cliff. My recollection is that you indicated you had worked with John Mummert in modifying the cylinder heads you have installed on your dragster motor. QUESTION: Is it your understanding that the shaping of the intake and exhaust porting immediately below where it enter the valve seats and also above where the valve seats enter the combustion chamber is critical to optimum port air flow numbers.
Thanks for all that you have shared in assembling your motor for the dragster and installing the motor in the dragster body. Much appreciated! .
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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Well, I don't know, I cut and try, I do find that there is no profit in following the crowd, I will try anything I can think of, I do think the longer valve guide is best for the street, for race engines who knows,
The heads on my dragster were ported by John with no input from me, I did the valve job and the shorted the guides (for seals).
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By Joe-JDC - 5 Years Ago
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As someone who has ported cylinder heads for 47 years, it has been my experience that taking the guide out flat like that actually hurts flow, causes turbulence, and a very noisy port because of the turbulence. It also removes some of the stabilizing of the valve, and cooling area for the stems, especially in the exhaust. Another thing that will cause to happen is a siphoning of the oil from the guides. If the exhaust is cut a little wrong, it will actually pressurize the crankcase some and coke up the valve stem into the guide and wear much faster. A simple fix would be to install tapered iron guides, or bronze guides. Problem solved. Joe-JDC
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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Hi Joe, I think you are right, for the amount of work someone put into these heads I would expect better numbers, they look like bigger is better, however they were cheap, I will do more work on them and see what I can do, I also did a fast check on the bench, so these numbers may not be correct, I ran them with a 3.860 bore, I only checked at .550, it was 65 deg. in the shop, I did no error correcting.
PS my bench is so noisy I don't think I can hear a noisy port (JKM 600)
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By NoShortcuts - 5 Years Ago
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Cliff & Joe-JDC. Thanks for your replies to my question about cylinder head porting.
Joe-JDC. Kudos to you and Ted on what you accomplished at the 2019 EMC event in September/October.with the 303 y-block entry. Well done!
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By Lord Gaga - 5 Years Ago
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Here's what I'm talking about. I've never seen G heads with that odd flat sided protrusion opposite the spark plug! The G heads I know and love
have combustion chambers like this;
: theLord Gaga (12/9/2019)
What's with the shape of those combustion chambers? And are they posted?
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By Ted - 5 Years Ago
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Ditto on the question about the protrusion in each combustion chamber. Looks like its a reasonably consistent modification regardless of why they are there. In looking at the chambers in more detail, it would appear that the protrusions themselves were not a added feature but material that was not removed when enlarging the combustion chambers around the valves. While the chambers around the valves were enlarged to enhance the flow, I would surmise that the protrusions were left to help keep the compression ratio from being further reduced. What do you think Cliff?
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By Joe-JDC - 5 Years Ago
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Ted is right, the combustion chambers were relieved around both valves thinking it would increase flow, but not true. Some folks think lowering the compression by unshrouding the valves that way is best for supercharging applications. I have seen many changes over the years in thinking, and that is very "old school" way of finishing the combustion chambers. It will work, but not the absolute best. The heads will probably work just fine, and make good power with slightly larger valves in both positions. The issue will be cylinder head gasket sealing if the chambers are too big to be used on a smaller bore block. Joe-JDC
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By Cliff - 5 Years Ago
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I don't know, the work on these is nice, I just think it's old thinking, i'm going to spend some time on them and see where I end up, I would have never done this kind of work however we'll see, maybe it is the way to go, who ever did this was no dope, the work is to nice, the chambers look perfect, the exhaust still has a small amount of guide showing, I'm surprised they have stock valves, the brass tubes are flat sheet stock rolled to fit (you can see the seams), so far the flow is poor for all the work done.
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By Joe-JDC - 5 Years Ago
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Lord Gaga (12/10/2019)
Here's what I'm talking about. I've never seen G heads with that odd flat sided protrusion opposite the spark plug! The G heads I know and love have combustion chambers like this;
Lord Gaga (12/9/2019)
What's with the shape of those combustion chambers? And are they posted?
The simple answer is that all you have to do is grind the metal around the whole circumference of the valve to get the flat indention left. It is called total unshrouding of the valves, and is not necessary, but once the metal is removed, it can't be put back cheaply or effectively. Joe-JDC
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By Lord Gaga - 5 Years Ago
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Now I get it! Thanks Joe and Ted.
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By NoShortcuts - 5 Years Ago
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Joe-JDC. WoW! That was some serious reshaping of the 'G' cylinder head combustion chambers that was done before Cliff purchased the heads! Combustion chamber volume must have grown significantly with having done that.
Joe, I JUST received my USPS delivered September- October issue of Issue 154 of Y-Block Magazine late yesterday (12/10/2019)! Ted did a great job of detailing what you two experienced in participating as entrants in the 2019 Engine Masters Challenge. The 10 page write-up Ted put together was both interesting and informative. Again, kudos to both of you for your efforts and accomplishment. 
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