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Re: Advantages to Titanium vs Stainless??
[Re: Jeepmon]
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10/30/14 02:37 PM
10/30/14 02:37 PM
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Al_Alguire
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Spending to much time hanging around Comp guys  IN some instances when a porter gets carried away better to upgrade than continue to throw money at parts that wont make the power you want.
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Re: Advantages to Titanium vs Stainless??
[Re: HotRodDave]
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10/30/14 04:13 PM
10/30/14 04:13 PM
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Al_Alguire
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He does not need a new builder. He has a brutally honest one now. I am pretty sure he would rather see Don buy a new set of heads all together rather than throw more money at these. But the fact is the heads he has simply wont get where he wants to be. Sometimes the truth hurts. This is one of those times when it will just be throwing good money after bad. Finding an honest engine builder is always what's best. Not one that will do whatever you ask, just because you say, especially if it means throwing your hard earned money away. Trust me he is in very capable hands.
I would have like to have seen titanium valves but I would have also like to have seen someone else do the port work. It was done by a well known shop, but in the quest for big flow numbers I do not believe the design of the port is the best way. It took a huge cross section to achieve the numbers, not the best way. I feel somewhat responsible as I was asked about the shop used. I can tell you that I will not do it again. I think what Don needs now is a RELIABLE piece that stays together. The overall package will work well and last. May not make 950hp but it will stay together. IMO at this point that is what is important.
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
"It's never wrong to do the right thing"
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It is not like you are asking him to put in plastic valves or something, he should do it the way you ask him too unless it was destructive or dis-honest and that request is neither 
I run into that kind of stuff at machine shops pretty often "you can't mill .030 off the deck of a 5.9 magnum block" was the last one I had to deal with, I found a shop to do it (he said the same thing but he eventually did it) and the truck is still running great a couple years later.