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So my friend Joe is in between jobs at the moment. (two car accidents in three wks) He's taking a bit of time off to recover, and he's been extremely bored. Joe is a mechanic and he's been working on engines since he was 12 or 13, anyways he purchased a dremel kit and got into the polishing mood (sick of watching TV and went into the garage) :smile:

He pulled up a chair and started going at it. This is just a minor polish, I mentioned a few rough spots that I noticed and few days later, bam pics started showing up. When I drop by, I want to learn how to do this.

here are some pics, more will come; tell us what you think. :wink:

 

[Speedy12139]

Cant say i've ever gotten that bored as to start polishing a cylinder head!

 

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holy cow shiny. :in love:

 

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turned out quite well

 

[USAFST2]

Was it only the intake runners that he did?

 

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He's gong to leave the exhaust port to me, Teach me how to do that.

 

[wheelhopper]

keep us updated with how it performs.

 

[Jim Bravo]

That came out nice looking! I haven't had the opportunity to port an ecoboost head, but all other 4 cylinder heads I've ported seem to respond well to a little bit of bowl blending, unshrouding the valves and port matching the head to the manifold.

I started out with an air die grinder and some large and loud compressor from Home Depot. A few years ago I found this electric die grinder at Harbor Freight and haven't looked back! Wait until it's on sale or you have a 20% off coupon to pick one up. I've put some pretty heavy use on mine, and haven't yet had to replace or service it.

If your friend is looking to do a little more porting, I'd suggest picking up a porting kit from Summit and one decent oval carbide burr. The burr will last forever on aluminum heads, and the porting kit will give him enough cartridge rolls to last through a few heads and manifolds.

 

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Finally done

Spent a few hours re-building. :in love:
Nice bore. :focus-st-smilie:

 

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Still need to polish to rest of the top, and bottom
Just a little something I didn't know, they used diamond tipped cutter for this process.
And now I know and knowing is half the battle. wait for it...
bed time, im to old to be staying up this late....

 

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awake again...

 

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Looking good. I want to get the head that Ford Racing offers without the headifold.

 

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The exhaust port kills me....the rings on the pistons i found are bad design. the lip on the ring (piston rings) are on the bottom instead of the top, when force is put on those rings it bends them down, causing them to weaken and break.

 

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Looking for Torque specs for the engine, if anyone could help I would be grateful. So far the Ford Focus SE hand book i bought does not have what is needed.
Asked Speed Performance see if they could help since there experienced with the build.

 

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Search continues!:in love:
keeping block covered with black garbage bag :haha: rods and pistons are in

 

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Can't seem to email speed performance anymore. Two of my emails just came back, wonder what that means.

 

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Pistons went in smoothly

 

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another 22$ on Brake cleaners engine Degreaser and super lube

 

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Clean up day, time to tidy up and put things away that i'm not using. No car work today, just focusing on clean, clean, clean!

 

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Cleaned up the injectors today, one of many things to do this week.

Bought a 3/8 in brass plug for the pvc plate, as seen further up. I dont think i'll be using other port, we'll see. If anyone is familiar with the set up chime in.