End Irons And Center
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Rotor Heads,
What end Irons (without the "O" ring grooves) have the biggest port runners in
stock form. Which Center Iron has the biggest runners.
I need the year and engine model of each, and Part numbers if you have them.
I need to build a monster 12A bridge port for next year.
Thank you.
Lynn E. Hanover
What end Irons (without the "O" ring grooves) have the biggest port runners in
stock form. Which Center Iron has the biggest runners.
I need the year and engine model of each, and Part numbers if you have them.
I need to build a monster 12A bridge port for next year.
Thank you.
Lynn E. Hanover
#4
The early 12A centre (we know it as the R5 Tallport) has 50mm high runners. Most of the endplates I have seen all have the same runner size, but the popular one for J-porting here is the 3B early 13B plate because it takes less work to fill the water jacket with Devcon.
As an aside, why not try and find a cheap 13B-RE out of the J-spec JC Cosmo. The runners are enormous: endplate runners are like a 6-port endplate with the material between the 5th and 6th ports removed; and the centre is tallport size. Of course, they have the o-ring grooves, so you would need matching rotor housings. The best housing for them would be from the 89-91 TII. Use a set of 89-91 N/A rotors with the shaft and counterweights from the 13B-RE as they are the same balance but 9.7:1 compression. Have them milled for 3mm apexes if you are going carbon, or stay with 2mm and go ceramic.
That is a recipe for a hell engine if built right.
As an aside, why not try and find a cheap 13B-RE out of the J-spec JC Cosmo. The runners are enormous: endplate runners are like a 6-port endplate with the material between the 5th and 6th ports removed; and the centre is tallport size. Of course, they have the o-ring grooves, so you would need matching rotor housings. The best housing for them would be from the 89-91 TII. Use a set of 89-91 N/A rotors with the shaft and counterweights from the 13B-RE as they are the same balance but 9.7:1 compression. Have them milled for 3mm apexes if you are going carbon, or stay with 2mm and go ceramic.
That is a recipe for a hell engine if built right.
#6
Originally Posted by TYSON' date='Feb 22 2004, 01:20 PM
Do they HAVE to be without grooves? Couldn't you just fill them with Devcon?
#9
Well I just checked my '84-'85 13b housing against my '86 one, they all line up, there are some minor differences though, although I can't see those effecting the performance of the cooling system at all though.
Hmm interesting.. because I have a mint '85 housing that i'd really quite like to use in my '86 engine if there aren't any really bad problems im not thinking about.
Hmm interesting.. because I have a mint '85 housing that i'd really quite like to use in my '86 engine if there aren't any really bad problems im not thinking about.
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