o well in that case, you do suck ultimatesteve! we all wanna know your secret porting skills!

 

theres no secrete, its just too much work to post up a how to..

 

Old how to thread I know but thought I would add that placing a wad of paper towel into the runners right past the grinding area helps to keep shavings from falling in too. This is what I did when I ported mine and I was able to pull the paper towel out after each runner was ported and had globs of shavings (most of it) come out with it.

 

i will give this a shot aswell

 

I just got my hands on one and will definitely be trying it out.

 

to port our intake manifold the plenum really needs to be cut so you can reach back in there farther. the most you should do to a stock intake manifold with no headwork should be a clean up. you are actually creating a pocket when you port just the beginning of the runners which causes a low vacuum area that causes the air to have less turbulence.

 

I've thought about just "polishing", no real removal of material, just a reduction in friction like I think you are saying. Any real benefits though you think? I am referring to a turbo'd engine in a base lancer btw, I don't care so much if there are benefits to a N/A lancer.

 

if you are counting every single HP then cleaning it up will help. either way it wont hurt anything. if you do it yourself its a free mod so there is nothing to lose.

 

What is porting the TB or is everyone talking about the Intake Manifold?


What do you actually do? Just grind it down a little?? Or increase the openings? And if second, how do you know how big to go??

 

The intake runner ports are smaller than the ports on the head meaning you can ground out some of the inside material on the intake runners to match the ports on the head giving you better flow

 

Gotchya, thanks for the response!!!

 

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