Reviving some old W2's

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I wasn’t asking for advice.
I don’t need your advice.
I’d be happy to discuss the heads through a conversation
You assume to much

Back to the W2 thread topic
Not my heads

Your the one who brought up your W5 heads hoping they could make 600, not me. I will learn in the future not to respond to your posts
 
Your the one who brought up your W5 heads hoping they could make 600, not me. I will learn in the future not to respond to your posts
Oh my God you are acting like a child with a holier than totally bloated head of “I am he who knows everything and I’m gonna tell you how it is even though I know nothing about YOUR particular part but it doesn’t matter because I have been there and done that with MY stuff so it must be true!”

If so, please tell me what my heads flow and why! Come on oh Super fortune teller! Tell me what kind of valves I have and there sizes. What’s my spring rate? Valve length.

Go deflate your extremely big *** head, calm down, have a freakin cookie to get your sugars back up. Empty your in box like I said, stop posting here and mudding up the thread.

ACT LIKE AN ADULT!

And stop ASSUMING!

When I said you know nothing ....
It wasn’t about your crap!
It was about mine.
Freakin read AND understand what you read before replying so you don’t look like a dumb *** stuck on stupid.
 
Apologies to RAMM. I am! Trying to back out of this gracefully and take it to a conversation. BUT! Some people are stuck on stupid and I really like it not to be me.
Very sorry RAMM.
Please continue.
 
Oh my God you are acting like a child with a holier than totally bloated head of “I am he who knows everything and I’m gonna tell you how it is even though I know nothing about YOUR particular part but it doesn’t matter because I have been there and done that with MY stuff so it must be true!”

If so, please tell me what my heads flow and why! Come on oh Super fortune teller! Tell me what kind of valves I have and there sizes. What’s my spring rate? Valve length.

Go deflate your extremely big *** head, calm down, have a freakin cookie to get your sugars back up. Empty your in box like I said, stop posting here and mudding up the thread.

ACT LIKE AN ADULT!

And stop ASSUMING!

When I said you know nothing ....
It wasn’t about your crap!
It was about mine.
Freakin read AND understand what you read before replying so you don’t look like a dumb *** stuck on stupid.

Talk about being a baby dude.........
 
Take to a convo.. AKA PM.

I keep tellin ya but you just wanna carry on. Clear you inbox. Or you can just STFU?
 
Earlier this summer I was sent these heads from a FABO member to work over. These open chamber heads had been previously worked on by another shop and they were reportedly flowing somewhere in the high 270's. First thing I do is a flow test to see where we are starting.

4.06" bore @ 28" H20 2.02/1.6

.100 62.4 51 w/pipe
.200 131.5 116
.300 191 154
.400 231.7 186
.450 250.5 192
.500 256.6 198.5
.550 253.4 201.6
.600 252.1 202.6
.650 252 204.3

Keep in mind these are previously rubbed on a little. An untouched W2 goes a paltry 231-232 @ .450-.480" lift then stalls hard. J.Rob

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My heads have a pretty much stock 'oval' profile on the intakes... I've been told that getting them a little closer to 'square' will really help the flow... don't really know. I DO know that the heads and intake are matched and I don't have the funds nor the ambition to see if that's true.
 
Very interesting numbers.
I have a set of w2's as well. No clue what they flow but I know they work well by feelin the g forces when accelerating.
The extras everyone says the heads take are very minor. New rockers, intake and exhaust. Basically the same thing everyone buys when building an engine. The *** dyno feels a BIG difference from a worked over j/x head

I have some indy 360-1's on their way shortly. Just waiting on Ryan at shady Dell to work his magic. :)
 
Ryan will do you right on those heads he makes good power out of W2
 
Update on thread.
10.40 @ 128.56 mph with these W2 heads on a stock bottom end 360”. Hughes solid cam and awesome head work by Jesse (RAMM). I did 2 passes yesterday and it goes faster after every pass. I think I can get in the 10.30’s with some tuning. I haven’t touched the suspension or even made any carb adjustments.

I highly recommend Jesse Robinson (RAMM) for any type of head porting. These old iron heads are still making power IF they are ported by someone who knows what they can do. Thanks again Jesse for the head work, one satisfied customer.

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This set of heads still used the 3/8" stem and the guides were wasted. A chat with the customer and the decision was made to install bronze guide liners and move to a set of 2.055"/1.6" Ferrea valves with a 11/32" stem. This makes guide sizing easy and accurate. It also makes moving the valve seat "up" possible and lightens the valve up and provides flow increase potential.

It had been awhile since I ported on iron and wow was it slow removing metal. The final flow results were a little lower than what the customer was hoping for I think but I am not of the "Hog it out and make it bigger crowd". I know what a W2 can do with these flowrates and its impressive. J.Rob

New flow

.100 68.6 52
.200 136.3 113
.300 193 163
.400 236 191
.450 255
.500 270 201.2
.550 282
.600 286 209.3
.650 274
.700 276 212.5

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To this day I cannot install or ship out a set of heads that starts backing up at .650 or possibly even .625. That’s when I aggressively start checking port air speeds because I know if and when I find the issue there are big cfm benefits to be gained. 300 plus are there even with a 3/8 stem 2.02 valve. Then again this is probably why I quit porting for others because I usually charged 600.00 or less to do a set and at one time it was more fun than it is today. Congratulations on running 10.40’s and can you tell us more about the engine and some car details.
 
another update,
i made a few passes last weekend.

i switched to methanol and it responded quite well.
1.42 60', 10.20 @ 130 mph. this was my first time using methanol so i think i can squeeze some more out of this baby 360''
 
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