Finally decided to get the l36 swap and my self ported heads done. I had an entire engine gasket set that I was planning on installing because my engine was a leaking mess... looked beautiful up top, but below the headers was a nasty sight. So I pulled my pan in car and didn't like what I saw... so decided the l67 was coming out and the low miles l36 is going in. Just pulled it and started to tear it down last night. Have to swap the cam and dbl roller over. I'll continue to update it tomorrow as I plan on finishing everything by tomorrow evening. Here's some pics of the work so far. It's a sludgy mess in there! There was quite a bit of metal shavings in there. I don't know where they came from, I've never seen this much junk in any of my 4 3800 cars. I've always changed the oil religiously. But have owned this one the least amount of time and when I pulled the valve covers the first time it looked rough. But has since became much cleaner from oil change to oil change.
This is the third set of heads I've ported, I still have some finish work and polishing to do, but overall I'm pretty happy with how they came out. I have about 10 hours in doing the set. Did all the work with a dremel, drill, and assortment of sanding drums and carbide bits. I didn't hog them out, I did one section at a time from port to port, then moved on to the next section and went port to port to maintain consistency. I used precision measuring tools from harbor freight to make sure port sizes stayed within a few thou of each other.
The last set that I did for my Daytona came out really nice too and worked out really nicely, I did see an increase in power afterwards for sure.
I'm also going to post some pics from when I did the intercooler install and show how I modded my own rails in case anyone wants to try it.
Let me know what you guys think.
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