I don't know what somebody could do to a 1500 Midget head that'd be worth $1000
other than a whole lot of porting. There is a local here who races Midgets and
he takes his heads and other machining to a guy who drag races and runs a
performance machine shop. For about $275 they stuck my 1500 head in a kiln for
a
few days, took it out, and actually welded the crack instead of plugging it.
Then they proceeded to do a complete valve job. They asked if I wanted porting,
and I said how much and they said it depends on how much you want. The guy that
races Midgets said he had about $1500 worth of porting on his head, but his is a
1275. I declined to have porting done, because I couldn't see how it'd be worth
it.
That's just my .02. I would be interested in somebody else spending the $1000
and giving me a report though. Not enough people experiment with performance on
the 1500 Midgets, and I don't have the money to risk.
adrian
Ulix Goettsch wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Travis G Elliott wrote:
>
> >
> > Bill,
> >
> > I haven't had the work done yet, David said that at the moment they were
> > stockpiled with work until around June.
> >
> > The work consisted of regrinding the exhaust and intake valves, putting in
> > larger stainless steel valves, putting in magnesium valve guides, and
> > lastly putting new better valve springs. The quoted price was $995. While
> > this seemed a little high, he is used to doing these engines.
> > I checked with local shops about the regrinds and even had the specs with
> > diagrams of what I wanted, but nobody would touch it.
>
> Travis,
> hmmm, what exactly do they do? You said regrinding the valves, then you
> said new valves. That can't be all you get for $1000, can it? Do you get
> some porting, resurfacing of the head? Well maybe that's ok, since it
> includes all the parts...
>
> I am getting the head for my Fiat done right now at the Fiat equivalent of
> APT (incidentally the company that manufactures the aluminum A-series head
> that everybody sells now). Bigger intake valves, bigger intake ports, cam
> reground, valves adjusted (shims), head resurfaced, all for under $600.
>
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