Inlet/exhaust port matching - worth it?

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Grant that looks the dogs doohdas, are you planning to put it on a dyno as I would love to see a video of it run up and see what the figures are.

You must have a good weight saving there with all those aluminium parts.
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Hi DaveMan :P , thank you so muchImageyes it looks so cool doesn't itImage, yes, we were ready to Dyno it just before I came away,, then the dyno man went away and as he returned we went, so bad timing there, The minute I'm back I'm wizzing it up there with vid camera in hand, this is a 400 block, so same crank and rods as a 383 but with larger diameter pistons than a 440, only by a tad though.. I'm a very exited chap Dave :P
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Hi everyone,

Agree with all of the recommendations re. inlet / exhaust port matching - free horsepower to be had!!!

Just one addition - with all of the discussion of 30 / 40 thou oversized bores, zero deck heights, etc, PLEASE ensure that you have correct clearance between the piston and the head (from memory, it should be a minimum of around 90 / 95 thou).

When I re-assembled mine, I had zero deck height + 30 thou pistons, and when I checked the piston to head clearance (without gasket), it was virtually nil around 0.5mm from the edge of the piston - if it remained standard bore, all would probably have been okay. Easily fixed (just a buzz off from the edge of the combustion chambers on the head), but this is a disaster you want to avoid.

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All Andrew asked was is it worth gasket matching. The only answer he needed was no!
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But I thought we all agreed that he needed to do port matching!

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DaveV8 wrote:All Andrew asked was is it worth gasket matching. The only answer he needed was no!
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Hi Grant,

That looks a fantastic engine, but one query, I thought you weren't supposed to paint the inside of the V as this is effectively inside of the engine, and if the paint flakes will contaminate the oil and can block the oil pick up. If you want to, you can always do another engine and give that one to me so I could run it and see if the problem occurs :D

Fitted the new inlet on mine, but having issue with the choke now as it isn't getting warm very fast, so am ditching the auto choke and engineering a manual choke which shouldn't be too difficult.
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Kevin Birch wrote:Hi Grant,

That looks a fantastic engine, but one query, I thought you weren't supposed to paint the inside of the V as this is effectively inside of the engine, and if the paint flakes will contaminate the oil and can block the oil pick up. If you want to, you can always do another engine and give that one to me so I could run it and see if the problem occurs :D

Fitted the new inlet on mine, but having issue with the choke now as it isn't getting warm very fast, so am ditching the auto choke and engineering a manual choke which shouldn't be too difficult.
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DaveV8 wrote:All Andrew asked was is it worth gasket matching. The only answer he needed was no!
Haha..sorry just dropped back into this post.

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Thanks everyone for the input and info. As I suspected, there are lots of answers..all right depending on what you want to get from the activity and what you want the engine to be at the end.
I will probably just do a clean up of all the flashings and the finger test down the inlets and exhaust throats.
Not entirely sure from the info in this thread that its worth port matching as the gains are minimal, especially if no other changes are being made (standard +040 flat top pistons, slightly hotter cam, but standard lifters and followers).
Im not even intending to deck the block as Id then have to look at machining the inlet manifold to match so whilst interesting looking at some of the info sheets, if I were to be going for more horses Id be looking at these more closely...but no doubt need deeper pockets also.
I HAVE to keep this build within a budget otherwise it will be off the road for too long and I want to use it over the Aus summer.

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Grant that looks the nut's it cant be far off firing up stick a big f off turbo on it and watch the flames come out of the massive exchaust.

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sticky wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 2:53 pm Grant that looks the nut's it cant be far off firing up stick a big f off turbo on it and watch the flames come out of the massive exchaust.

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