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Ported stock header #431979 Apr 1, 5:32pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA did it in class took about 2 hours, pretty easy the die grinder was slow at cutting so there is no messing up. here are some pix (i notice the hiss coming from the header so i would say the low end power is there)

Re: Ported stock header Clos #431980 Apr 1, 5:32pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA 2

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Re: Ported stock header Clos #431984 Apr 1, 5:35pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA 6 Last edited by Clos; Apr 1, 2005 5:36pm.

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Re: Ported stock header Clos #431987 Apr 1, 5:39pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA i know i could of ported in more but i got kinda tired so its fine for now. 2 bad i cant even enjoy it sence my clutch went out on me and i have to get a new one asap

Re: Ported stock header Clos #431988 Apr 1, 5:44pm Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 205 RI flyimages Member 2001 Toyota & Acura Celica GTS flyimages Member 2001 Toyota & Acura Celica GTS Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 205 RI nice! can't wait to do mine!

Re: Ported stock header flyimages #431989 Apr 1, 6:18pm Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,296 Orlando/Gainesville, FL bmw52786 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT bmw52786 Specialist 2001 Toyota Celica GT Joined: May 2003 Posts: 1,296 Orlando/Gainesville, FL great job man!

Re: Ported stock header bmw52786 #431990 Apr 1, 7:56pm Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 415 California BigTony Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT BigTony Senior Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 415 California how long did it take you total, including taking the header off...porting it...and putting it back on?

Re: Ported stock header BigTony #431991 Apr 1, 8:19pm Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 706 St. Augustine, Florida KickScrew Sideways 2003 Toyota Celica GTS KickScrew Sideways 2003 Toyota Celica GTS Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 706 St. Augustine, Florida Thats awesome. You got some skill there

Re: Ported stock header KickScrew #431992 Apr 2, 9:54am Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica hombredelassrtas CF Connoisseur 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,744 Gainesville, FL wow kick ass

Re: Ported stock header hombredelassrtas #431993 Apr 2, 5:29pm Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 83 San Diego, CA alex93393 Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT alex93393 Member 2000 Toyota Celica GT Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 83 San Diego, CA just out of curiosity, what does porting the heads do?

Re: Ported stock header alex93393 #431994 Apr 3, 12:57am Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 400 Arkansas maingear Senior Member 2002 Toyota Celica maingear Senior Member 2002 Toyota Celica Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 400 Arkansas That was a great idea! Thanks for sharing! Porting causes the walls to have no deviations, so the flow is increased. It's all about the flow man! The Whistles Go Whoo! Last edited by maingear; Apr 3, 2005 12:59am.

Re: Ported stock header maingear #431995 Apr 3, 2:53pm Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA if you look at the first pix you can see how the walls of it are huge, and pretty much fucks up the air flow. its not hard by the way, anyone should do it.

Re: Ported stock header Clos #431996 Apr 4, 9:07am Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 190 North Carolina shonen Member 2001 Toyota Celica shonen Member 2001 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 190 North Carolina you might want to smooth out your porting a bit, you can definitely see where you stoped porting and the metal is sticking out. That might have a bit of effect on your porting mod. But good job on the port for just doing it yourself.

Re: Ported stock header shonen #431997 Apr 4, 9:19am Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 895 California celicajonz Senior Member 2004 Toyota Celica celicajonz Senior Member 2004 Toyota Celica Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 895 California Originally posted by A_Bathing_Ape: I hit, what else, oh plus dome.

Re: Ported stock header celicajonz #431998 Apr 5, 4:28am Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Clos Specialist 2000 Toyota Celica Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,037 Alexandria, VA yeah i should of done a lil better, it was just hard to see were to stop and i didnt buy a new gasket so i didnt want a leak. ill do it some other day, still better gains than any other header out there so beats me.

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