Re: Head Porting

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <543cfe6f.24d4b54e@aol.com> OorQue@aol.com writes:

> > All the way through what.  It fully bridges between the two valves but it
> > appears that piece of material is pressed in there or something and isn't
> > part of the casting.  The casgint below seems fine.

> According to the machinist who's doing the work on my heads, you can peen
> over the edges of the crack and ignore it ... I'm still sort of uncomfortable
> with this but he said it happens all the time to Audi and Dodge heads and
> this is what he always does to fix it.  He claims he's never had one fail
> yet...

No, that's exactly what the factory manuals say.

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