I am getting my stock exhaust manifold ported and coated locally, and also have the Ebay 02 on hand ready to go...

I am considering the BR ported 10.5 as well... but dont know if the gains will be worth the $$ he charges for the work....

worse comes to worse I'll just keep my 10.5 stock, throw in the ebay 02 and ported and coated manifold...go back for a retune and call it a day...

 

bump for responses....

 

Did you seriously bump your own thread after just a half an hour?

 

Not sure it's a great idea to port the manifold without the turbine housing. That will result in the openings from the manifold to the turbine housing being larger than the openings in the turbine housing. No good could come from that. If you are on the fence about the money, I'd just get it ported and skip the coating.

EDIT: I just saw that you aren't having Buschur port your manifold, so maybe this isn't an issue. When BR ports the manifold, they port match the openings to the gasket so that they are actually larger than the stock openings. The port work on the turbine housing complements this porting.

 

yes..... cuz I'm dying to know.....have decisions to make $$$ to spend...