Templates for porting?
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Templates for porting?
Does anyone have templates for porting of a 2nd gen NA engine? I know it sounds cheap, but I don't want to have to buy the ones from Pineapple Racing, don't have that kind of money now, with a rebuild in my immediate future. Is there a way we can make our own or is there anyone that can hook me up?
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I went to the Mazdatrix website and printed their pictures of porting. I measured the ports in the picture based on a known referance point and was able to draw my own to scale.
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Porting templates are presumably the result of many hours of labour porting engines, building them, testing them on the dyno and then starting all over again to try and improve. Any commercially viable porting template will have hundreds of hours of labour over many years, and a lot of dyno time and testing time invested. This is why they cost about $50 a piece. What you pay is totally reasonable for the result of what you get.
It is wrong and immoral to take a commercial porting template and put it out on the Internet for all to see. Hopefully no one actually does that.
Though getting the port shapes from the Mazdatrix website and then scaling them up is VERY creative.
It is wrong and immoral to take a commercial porting template and put it out on the Internet for all to see. Hopefully no one actually does that.
Though getting the port shapes from the Mazdatrix website and then scaling them up is VERY creative.
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I can afford barely enough for the engine rebuild, I will not be able to afford the 100+ for the templates for a street port. But again, since I'm ripping the engine apart, I wanted to see if I could port it. Looking like not. Thanks for the .02 tho.
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Ditto. Don't streetport if you don't have the cash to buy another housing, the skill to cut out a template precisely, or the foresight to mask off your housings to prevent skip marks.
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