I'm hoping that the board can get together and post their reviews on the various porting templates out there. I personally use the pineapple templates, They are well engineered, and sturdy. However I'd to get other opinions. For example I'd love to get my hands on some Ito templates, but they are hard to find.

 

i personally have multiple pineapple plates and housing templates aswell as some racingbeat and mazdatrix plates. the pineapple ones are by far the most acurate to duplicate for the exhaust ports and the intake ports are well done aswell.



for all the years i have been building and porting engines i have come up with my own templates i use on the 6 port motors aswell as the T2 , REW and RE. all of wich use differnt templates for each aplication that the engine is being used for ie i have a temple i came up with for the RE big single turbo for awsome mid range and upper end tq and hp with a nice idle. i call it an extended port.



i have another for the NA 6 port race motor on 87 octain fuel wich makes 245-252 bhp depending on fuel injection or carb and wich header is used. and its concidered a street port per SCCA rules for E Production racing



i have another street port for the T2 with a stock to smaller big turbo upgrades



i have another for the REW street port wich is similar to the RE but the center iron is where the change was made.





anyways i dont know if this is the kinda info you where looking for but i felt the need to spew for a change.







randy



RRR AutoSports

 

would you mind sharing pics and maybe some details of your re ports? thanks zack

 

i will not show any of my ports or make templates.



randy

 

I ported my N/A with a Pineapple racing streetport. I'm still new to porting, so this was a good choice for me. Lynn E. Hanover has a good tool to use for analyising porting templates, and it can be utilized to create a custom port for ones application.



I still use the stock ECU for my streetported engine, so it consumes a bit of fuel, and perfoms a little "unstable"(not a good definition) at high RPMs. With this handicap, a good review wouln't be accurate..



*Get ahold of trash irons and housings if your starting out. It helps a lot.

 

I used Lynn's idea and came up with this. With it you can design your own ports.



For the opening and closing sides two of the most critical points (per Lynn and ITO) are:

1- the inside diameter trace has the tip of the trailing side seal scissoring back onto the plate on the straight section.

2- the leading end of the side seal we can keep it from dropping into the port at all.



Barry Bordes