Speedmaster Small block porting tips and results Part 1

View attachment 1715443478 View attachment 1715443479 Sorry I’m not an artist so I hope you guys understand this.
Thank yor for these airspeed numbers.

View attachment 1715443480 This will be a little harder to understand from my drawling but these are the airspeeds across the bottom of the shortside. Look at how the number jumped on the left side (pushrod) after opening up “the pinch” and letting the air flow tighter against the wall. Now it’s begging for more area at the shortside so I will remove the head bolt bulge and push the common wall over, shape the bowl, and open the combustion chamber up around the valves.

Mind pushes water out of the tube at 450 fps......also require ear plugs and a head muffs to withstand the noise:eek:

Not necessarily. A Home porter could take the above info, do it, and have an idea where his head would measure up. The average person doesn’t look into a port and notice the common wall tilts in as it gets closer to the shortside, the floor tilts up as it gets closer, the roof tilts down as it gets closer. If I can help a guy see this and show him or her how to address it maybe guys won’t be afraid to try porting. Who knows they may get the bug like I did and build their own flowbench too. Porting is becoming a lost art and someone may be the next guy to design a cnc program.


Let’s take a step back for a second. Brett Miller an East Coast Head porter just did a small block Mopar Super Stock Edelbrock post on his Facebook group. Their is one legal Head from Edelbrock for this class and can be seen on Summits website. Now you can take that head and modify it but it still has to come in with an under 170 cc runner. His welding buddy added several layers of weld on the floor of the runner so he could raise the port and move the rocker and pushrod over to improve air flow and still stay safely under 170cc. They also had to use a 2.02 intake valve. When finished they flowed around 280 cfm. Shape, runner cc, and valve size dictate turbulence and flow. The head he ported flowed around 40 cfm more than out of the box but that labor for staying within the Super Stock rules come at a cost. Someone asked him and he quoted a 10,000.00-12,000.00 price. I won’t post his pictures but please check out his work on Facebook. The shape of the exhaust port totally changed.


That's the balancing act that you do over and over again. air speed over cfm! If you can gain cfm without to much air speed you win. if you gain air speed but is turbulence. you ground in the wrong place. and you won't know until you try it!
And around and a round you go!
PBR knows were those "Do Not Grind" spots are and where the cfm flow spots are. So he can grind in several spot that he knows it needs. The fps probes just tell you if your thinking is in the ballpark.

Thanks for doing all of this pittsburghracer:thankyou::thumbsup::thumbsup: