power heads

[CFARRELL]

I will never use their services again. What I have spent with them and the shipping costs and the down time and the head still isn't right. The problems come down to just about everything under the horizon for 15 mile of bad performance. I picked up an essy head new for a couple hundred dollars more and waited less time while they were built. If you decide to use them consider yourself warned.

[CFARRELL]

If only I could cuss on here

[DAVEZ84SVO]

Is the place that you are refering to located in CA?? If so, I used them several times way back in 2002 when installing PI heads on my dad's 4.6L in his T-bird.. I was the first to do it on a T-bird.. They were the only ones that had any info on doing the swap..

I'm sorry that you recieved bad service from them..

Dave

[CFARRELL]

Mike, to start with the essy head could use a little cleaning up, but overall I'm satisfied. The PH head swiped a couple of lobes on a new a237 cam, spit the roller sliders off, The guides are to tight, Springs set wrong. When you have something sent back for repairs I'd hopped it would have been fixed right.

Dave, Power Heads CA use to have another co-partner that opened up his own shop and I heard he has a 440rwhp t-coupe that is the same head and flow numbers that they advertise. I had heard good things about this company, but with this guy gone I wouldn't trust the work.

Chris

[CFARRELL]

Mike, Thanks again for all the support and tech info. I'm thinking about a 2.7 since I melted #1 piston with the essy.

[CFARRELL]

Mike, I talked to Jim at Motion Dynamics and it sounds like the 2.5 ranger crank is getting very hard to find, so that's what brought on the 2.7 idea.

[DAVEZ84SVO]

Chris, thanks for the heads up on them.. I have not dealt with them since & did not know that there was a split in ownership!!

dave

[CFARRELL]

pics of the valves

[vrinner]

Dave, Power Heads CA use to have another co-partner that opened up his own shop and I heard he has a 440rwhp t-coupe that is the same head and flow numbers that they advertise. I had heard good things about this company, but with this guy gone I wouldn't trust the work.

Chris

I believe you are talking about Bill Powell (sp?). He is the guy who built my head and it seems to be doing fine. Bill did my head when he was still located in Fullerton. I've had Bill do some other work on my car (tranny, and other minor issues) and have always been happy with him.

[CFARRELL]

Just found out that the head didn't flow as advertised either

[CFARRELL]

PS$%!T head. Haven't checked the ESSY yet

[NY eric]

I never had problems with my powerheads head. But it was done by Bill 4 years ago.

FWIW I have never seen two flow bencehes give the same # on the same head.
Sory to hear about your issues. You should have gone to motion Dynamics they are much closer but hind site is 20/20.

[Pat_in_L.A.]

FWIW I have never seen two flow bencehes give the same # on the same head.

AMEN!
Too many uncontrolled variables. Too many agendas by head shops selling heads, although many have never done a 2.3 correctly..

[Pat_in_L.A.]

Would it be a valid test to compare two different heads using the same flow bench, same operator, same day?

Then modify one of the heads and re-flow it on the same bench, same operator, different day?

Corrections for temperature, humidity, air density would be in order. Then we could better determine how to further develop a 24 year old tractor engine,

[8T6 SVO]

pics of the valves

Those are new valves?