cylinder head modification price
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vpulsar
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I had Agra Engineering port my head for £500 but that was 5 years ago now, I think you can spend a small fortune of having heads built properly. Personally for a road car I don't think anything other than a little clean up is warranted, But for a race car the sky's the limit mate.
ive got a head with someone (A TUNER) at the moment, he wants £1270 but the original price was a few hundred quid cheaper... I supplied the head and the valve springs, after saying it was all done and dusted and ready for collection I asked him to confirm the supertech springs were fitted he then claimed the inner springs were wrong so he put the price up (about the same as buying a set of springs which I think weren't originally fitted) but its been there two years its my fault for the last year but the first year I never heard from them
so its a year all in my book, he has raised the price recently claiming he had sold it as I hadn't got in touch,
but then he reimbursed them when I contacted him, so I just think he is taking the p**s a bit with raising the price!
so its a year all in my book, he has raised the price recently claiming he had sold it as I hadn't got in touch,
but then he reimbursed them when I contacted him, so I just think he is taking the p**s a bit with raising the price!
vpulsar
Well-Known Member
Sounds like your typical tuner mate I wouldn't go near one, You should of had an engineering place do it, Of or get that CNC heads mob to do it properly and empty your wallet lol, What are you planning to use the car for mate ?. If it's just a road car then cut you loses and buy one from one of the forum members I know of one maybe two that are maybe coming up for sale.
Makaveli_se7en
Member
Name and shame. Need to drive all these clowns out of business.
stifler1603
New Member
its about $3000 to properly port and polish a head here which amounts to £750. had mine done last summer
vpulsar
Well-Known Member
You'd be very unlucky to need new valves and seats unless you where wanting bigger valves, My head was ported I also had bronze guides fitted that I supplied and a 3 angle job done on the seats and that was £500 but every places charges differently, But as has been said you can spend thousands building a race head but that isn't necessary for a road car. Even if you do track day you're not really racing anybody other than yourself and you can't go flat out anyway due to others on track so I think people need to be realistic and not waste money doing things that will really be of no benefit to them in there everyday use of the car it's just pub bragging rights, These cars are expensive enough as it is.
Rob
I agree unless you are regularly racing there is no point going mad, I only wants to uprate mine because it kept throwing rockers on launch control so I got some supertech springs and decided while it was out to get it modified,
red reading
Active Member
There is prob five people access able to the public in the uk that are worth there salt on cylinder heads, to do them properly anyway, and most of them build bike engines for top race teams which means they have to know what they are doing as bike tuning is a lot more pernickety than cars due to the fact you need feel as well as power.
red reading
Active Member
If you don't know what you are doing be careful.....and do bloody not use the feeler gauges bits to increase the shim thickness or use thicker shims on the rocker posts.
red reading
Active Member
Me and vss have a shim bank, you cannot by the shims any more.
Makaveli_se7en
Member
I read somewhere that Harley Davidson shims are the correct diameter for the non-castle type, not sure if that's true or not.
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