that sucks time for rebuild and porting

 

Definately port it once you have it open. Porting is probably the most worthwhile mod of them all, if the engine has to come apart anyhow. You can send off the plates to someone and have it done for a few hundred bucks or do it yourself like I did. If you do it yourself, I would suggest buying an old center or pair of side housings to do a couple practice ports on before doing the final ones. It seems pretty normal to go through a scratching phase when learning to port, when your die grinder or dremel jumps out of the port and takes a walk on the polished sealing surface of the plate. After I had done a couple ports, I pretty much had the grinder under control and did some acceptable work.





Go for it! I would.

 

Bp

 

keep in mind he's turbo so he will have to port waste gate and possibly upgrade turbo depending on the porting, it might be a good idea to just do a small cleanup on the ports unless he can afford to take it further.

 

good point pengaru, porting on a turbo2 causes a "snowball" effect

 

Not to sound like a candy *** or an amatuer but that is a nice touch putting duct tape on the housing to be ported. I have seen the aftermath of a sleepy die grinder operator rushing to finish the port and it is way nasty!