Seems like a very knowledgeable guy
Any opinions on his work?
https://www.youtube.com/user/HeadPorting/videos
Any opinions on his work?
https://www.youtube.com/user/HeadPorting/videos
Anybody watch Headbytes Porting on Youtube?
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Krooser
Building Chinese Free Engines since 1959...
He's a two bit scammer. Did his work in a garden shed. Ask any real head Porter about his work or do a Google search on his name. Lots of scammed people...
I think he got run outta business a few years ago.
I think he got run outta business a few years ago.
Seems like a lot of the complaints are about him on the work he has done on customers heads not necessarily the DIY advice he gives. Too bad cause a he's gives a very detail showing what to do for the backyard builder.
JDMopar
Well-Known Member
@318willrun has a You Tube video or 2 showing how to home port heads. He explains it so well, and shows such good ways to do it.....that I may even be brave enough to try it!
Krooser
Building Chinese Free Engines since 1959...
What to do wrong! Honestly that guy doesn't have a clue. Please don't follow his advice.
PRH
Well-Known Member
That’s a good one
Or...... “Headlyce”
There are some videos(horror shows) about what some people got from him after forking over pretty good $$$....... and waiting forever to get it.
He might be YouTubes most infamous head porting scammer.
If he’d have just done the job he promised, in a somewhat timely manner ....... he’d have had all the work he could handle.
I watched one, once.
yellow rose
Overnight Sensation
LOL. Yep. There is more than one way get a port shaped and sized the way you want it, but I’ve never seen anyone use the exact same tools, or techniques.
It’s hard to show someone how to port when you are standing there, let alone on video. Of course, using YouTube as marketing is a different topic.
Shorty Medlock
Roads Scholar
I really feel sorry for Headbytes... I do. The guy obviously likes to port heads. And he's a legend in his own mind (most of us are!). But his backyard techniques and out and out fraud means he has no credibility anymore.
I pride myself on doing most of my own work over the last 60 years. I pulled down my first engine when i was 10...Buick straight 8.
And I have raced with homebuilt and even junkyard engines when money was tight. Nothng wrong with running what you already have. I have done many cheap rebuilds with the engine in situ (that's in place for those of you in Rio Linda). Again...not a problem getting by on a budget.
Any legal issues he has he brought on himself. I feel sorry for those who fell for his videos.
I haven't always been so critical... I damn near bought some ProComp heads after see ing his visdeo on those heads. But I took a step back and did some research. I don't fall for those shiny objects much anymore. I'm old and I can't afford too many more mistakes.
I pride myself on doing most of my own work over the last 60 years. I pulled down my first engine when i was 10...Buick straight 8.
And I have raced with homebuilt and even junkyard engines when money was tight. Nothng wrong with running what you already have. I have done many cheap rebuilds with the engine in situ (that's in place for those of you in Rio Linda). Again...not a problem getting by on a budget.
Any legal issues he has he brought on himself. I feel sorry for those who fell for his videos.
I haven't always been so critical... I damn near bought some ProComp heads after see ing his visdeo on those heads. But I took a step back and did some research. I don't fall for those shiny objects much anymore. I'm old and I can't afford too many more mistakes.
Head bites and Doctor J should spend some time together.
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If it has tits, it's a liabilititty.
Guys that have that much time to make a a homemade tv show out of something are usually selling snake oil or just making it up as they go.
It becomes persona and less genuine..then their reality is blurred and they become delusional.
Spiraling down the internet toilet bowl they all go....
It becomes persona and less genuine..then their reality is blurred and they become delusional.
Spiraling down the internet toilet bowl they all go....
why work when you canhave a u tube Chanel and have people send you money gifts and you make off the adds the more viewers you get the more you make and you wonder why the world is going to ****
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Maybe that's what they've been doing, each other. "Headbytes" might be a metaphor.
Youtube can be a dangerous thing for the DIY crowd. I've tried correcting a few misconceptions..but the lame uploader use another account to troll... lmao. Sucks to be them.
skrews
Well-Known Member
At least he's good for the laughs.
mini
Small Bore Long Stroke
That video says it all. And unfortunately if someone works alone they are hard to trust. A built business that is established is a much safer way in my opinion. Cough** sdss
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If it has tits, it's a liabilititty.
Easier to sue, more impactful when bad word of mouth gets around, otherwise the big guys screw you and shove ya between the cracks just as or more often.
It's the people that think its easy and or cheap 'or want to think that it is' that jump for that junp from rooftops.. they are usually the ones. The next best thing is not.
How much is there left after 50 years of the same. No new magic tricks anymore.
CF-engines01
New Member
beating a dead thread, but this comment irks me, so I had to make an account to specifically reply to THIS, one, as a business owner myself, an automotive machine shop owner no less, being 27 years old, taught by someone whose done this profession for 60 years, though, I am a one man shop, I build engines, Deck, Bore, hone, etc etc, this is the belief that is killing the industry, and why new generations of auto machinist's just never Make their own shop or business thus leaving us with what we're left with now (in my area there is only 1 shop, and that owner is going out of business leaving ME as the LAST automotive machinist within a 50-150 mile radius in my area.. GO to your small shops, GO to support them, they're the last line of defense against being forced to ship out engines to Kalamazoo and back spending Hundreds on shipping alone...
I am happy to be a lone Shop owner, I love to work alone, being in my own space, and working at my own rate without worrying what another guy is doing, but do NOT discount us, just because we aren't westech, White's performance, or any other large layout Huge output shop with the newest best of the best equipment doesn't mean we cant put out Just as good work it's also why kids ain't wanting to do this stuff now because folk wont give 'em a chance.
CF-engines01
New Member
as for headbyte's, dude is a loudmouth Scammer who scammed friends of mine from East Ky.
skrews
Well-Known Member
He was shot and killed by Lebanon Tennessee police on July 21 2023
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Holy fk!!!
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