cylinder head work

Post Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:58 pm

Does anyone know somewere that can do cylinder head work? Im looking to get combustion chambers polished aswell as exhaust and inlet ports polished and matched to the manifolds.

Ive already had a 3 angle valve grind done on the head. Ive started one of the combustion chambers but i just dont have the time to do it myself.

Im looking for somewere preferably in the northwest but for a good job id consider sending it elsewere.

Cheers!

Post Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:23 pm

dont polish the inlet

its a myth

Post Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:25 pm

whoops i didnt mean polish the inlet just kind of smooth it but leaving it abit rough

Post Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:51 pm

Anyone got any ideas? id like to use somewere whos got a good reputation if possible.

Anyone had any head work done by fritzbits? what about bexleys?

Post Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:05 pm

Si316 wrote:Anyone got any ideas? id like to use somewere whos got a good reputation if possible.

Anyone had any head work done by fritzbits? what about bexleys?

Was gonna sat Fritzbitz as they offer that service on their website. PBMW did a feature on them this month too.
Get a stage 4 mate, race spec

Mark.

Post Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:10 pm

Wicked ive had afew parts off them before just wondering if anyones had some work done by them. sent an email off just for prices.

Stage 4 sounds awesome

Post Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:16 pm

Hey Si!
I'm beggining work on mine,, all slowly mind!
Whats fritz bits website, i never seam to be able to find it?
Is that your manifold on Ebay? Didn't it fit in the end, bit of a bummer? Should convert your car to left hand drive

!

Post Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:07 pm

http://www.fritzsbits.co.uk/

Post Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:29 pm

Ta! now why can't google find that?

Post Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:15 am

Gwynleym10 wrote: Is that your manifold on Ebay? Didn't it fit in the end, bit of a bummer? Should convert your car to left hand drive !

yes mate thats the manifold, it totally didnt fit. Wouldnt even clear the suspension strut properly! and then there was the steering column and gearbox bell housing in the way.

Ill be having some manifold flange plates made up at the end of the month to make a custom manifold. i dont know if u'd be interested in one but giza shout if you are mate!

Post Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:28 pm

yes mate thats the manifold, it totally didnt fit. Wouldnt even clear the suspension strut properly! and then there was the steering column and gearbox bell housing in the way.

That is plain rude, thought the guy told you that it would fit?

have you ever though of modifiying a m42 header?, with a different flange on it? or are the cyclinder spaces completly different...

Post Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:30 pm

The guy said it would fit an m10 but wasnt sure if it would fit in an e30 chassis.

The ports on the iS are a totally different shape plus i got a wicked idea for a custom manifold

Post Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:20 pm

Si, do you mind letting me know what kind of money fritzbits charge, so i have a better idea whether to work on the engine in my 316 or drop an M30 in.

Aslo can you give me a rough idea about the kind of results i could get from my engine, 1.8 carb.

Cheers

Post Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:12 pm

Si, do you mind letting me know what kind of money fritzbits charge, so i have a better idea whether to work on the engine in my 316 or drop an M30 in.

Me too....!
Kedge, you could always get the work done on a m30 head! its only an m10 with two extra cyclinders.....!

Post Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:33 pm

Fritz want Ãƒ”šÃ‚£350 for the work, ive got afew other places that im waiting to hear back from. maybe if theres afew of us who want them doing maybe we could get some kind of group discount going??

You can get some really good results from the m10's it depends how much you want to throw at them. with my setup ive been told by people in the know to expect anywere from 160-200bhp, im not sure myself but would be nice. The work im having done and the way its being built should mean its a real nice engine to drive aswell.

Gwyn, havent seen another hartge manifold anywere have ya. im kickin myself about that one on ebay as its no there now i want it d'oh!

Post Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:49 pm

Gwyn, havent seen another hartge manifold anywere have ya. im kickin myself about that one on ebay as its no there now i want it d'oh!

Doubt it would have fitted a RHD anyway...
I approached Stahl in the states a while back, and they did not want to even think about a RHD....

Is the Ãƒ”šÃ‚£350 for stage 4 then?
Might plump for that on my new head....would be awsome!

Post Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:45 am

no mate thats 350 for just the polishing and porting the stage 4 has bigger valves and more work.

Ive contacted ireland engineering about the stahl headers, i think the only way were gonna have tubular manifolds is to have them custom made. Ive got a crackin idea that im gonna try out. Giza shout on msn and ill let ya in on it as its gonna be kept under wraps