#54330 - 12/20/09 01:08 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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tlowe #1716
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Hank, Have not done it yet. Had the Elco running 2 weeks ago when it was 12 degrees. Been too busy with everything else to take it down. It will get done yet.
Do you remember what your divided head was flowing? Remember, the flow bench can't tell all. Tom
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#54333 - 12/20/09 02:10 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Hank, Have not done it yet. Had the Elco running 2 weeks ago when it was 12 degrees. Been too busy with everything else to take it down. It will get done yet.
Do you remember what your divided head was flowing? Remember, the flow bench can't tell all. Tom
Tom, I would have to find the flow numbers,this test was done in the mid 80's.
When you have too small of an intake port,dose not matter how much air you are trying to pump in there, that will be a restriction no matter how you look @ it.
The siamesed port is breathing from two intake ports,so you cannot compare the two heads,a 12 port head & a siamesed port head.
Now if Harry devided his siamesed port & made it a 12 port,then you can compare the two on a flow bench,then that would be a better comparision.
I will go out on a limb here & say Harry did not flow test his head w/the port deviders & flow 25% more than the 12 port Brazillian head,but that's just a good guess from me I think,but what do I know, my 2 star rating shows I don't know much @ all. ;-)
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#54334 - 12/20/09 02:45 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Hank, heres what I know about dividing the ports on a siamese head. In around 1999 or 2000, my good friend Darren Davis who raced and set many NHRA records in several Econo Altered comp classes, was always told by both Sissell and Headrick that dividing the port would never work. He had the idea to try this many times, but always let there advice keep him from trying it. At the close of the 19990 or 2000 race season, he was about to move up to Pro Stock Truck, and leave the 6's behind and move on. He dug a Sissell lump head out of his garage, and took a die grinder and ground the brazed lumps completely out of the head, and made a simple sheetmetal divider, and tack welded them to the header flanges, so they would protrude into the ports when you bolted on the headers. He said it made 50 HP more than the very best lump head he had ever had, and set another record on the next time at an NHRA event. Now, in 2009, no one that even races a Chevy 6 in any NHRA professional class uses a lump port head at all, for something like the lump to have been used so successfully for close to 3 decades by so many, how come it is no longer used in professional racing.
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#54342 - 12/20/09 07:17 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Hank, yes it was naturally aspirated. At that time, his engine made the most HP per cubic inch(2.14 HP/CI) of any N/A inline in professional competition at 535HP out of just 250 CID. The intake ports were in no way stock in size, it was a full tilt 320+ CFM head from Sissell from his peak time in his career, prior to his passing. So if you can picture the head Kirby has of ours that you've mentioned before, just think of the floor being ground out to the point of it being before you put the brass in it, and stick in a divider full depth. I know a racer currently that I have been trying to get some pics from, that is using this same technique, but has welded the divider in place. Of course, nothing is easy, you have to open to ports up, and im sure they are doing other trick things, but he is being vague in some areas, because it is still kinda' secretive to most of them that use it. But from what Darren told me he did 10 years ago, it ain't rocket science if he did it. He just took some tin snips and formed some dividers to tack weld to his header flange, and he saw a pretty big gain from doing just that. But like anything else, some amount of tweaking or R&D, might be needed to evaluate fully the best overall shape or style to make the dividers and ports.
But don't anyone get ahead of me here. I have always been Pro-lumps, either bolt-in or weld-in, because I have a pretty long background with that technology. But if you want to know what works, just look at what the top guy's are running and setting records with right now. There must be something to it, or they wouldn't be doing it, because they race to win, and if it doesn't win, they don't use it. If I can get some pics, i'll gladly put them on here so we all can give it a try.
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#54745 - 01/09/10 07:10 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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On my Bridgeport now, there is a head getting the intake port widened and the roof raised. Over 1/4" wider and 3/16 taller to start. Not going into water either. Next, a nicer port divider will be made. This head is planned to be tested on the dyno 250, I also have a divided intake that could be tested. Velocity should still be good as the individual port will not be too small or too large. May get pic's on Sunday. Tom
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#54782 - 01/10/10 05:58 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Here are the pic's, remember this is still on the Mill and not been dressed up (at all). Raised the roof and broadened the sides. Next a bolt in port divider will be made. Any ideas on how to mount it?
If the divider is 1/8" thick the ports will be 1.3625 wide X 1.64 tall, giving a 2.2345 sq in opening. What will the port velocity be then?

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#54937 - 01/16/10 12:47 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Chopped up a cracked "194" head. Making the new port plates fit this head and then modify the runner head. Will run the divided head with both a standard intake and a divided intake.
No lumps will be installed. Tom
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#54951 - 01/17/10 07:39 AM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Standard intake will be a Offy and clifford, meaning not divided. For divided intakes , have a Clifford and a as cast Brazilian intake.
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#54964 - 01/18/10 07:10 AM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Yep , mentioned that in the 250 dyno posts already. That is not a divided intake though.
The Guy that bought it deserves all the credit for getting it to me. He is reaching out to help from New Zealand. Tom
Harry, PM me or give me a call. Tom
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#54972 - 01/18/10 09:53 PM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Tom, glad to see you are going to use a divided runner intake on some of your dyno tests. Years back I had a '66 chevy truck with a 292 and 4 speed that I installed an Edelbrock SP2P intake manifold on. It was advertised as a fuel mileage manifold but the increase in low and low midrange torque was noticeable and the fuel mileage improved also. The engine was stock except for a split exhaust manifold and the Edelbrock manifold was set up to use the stock 1bbl carb. I'll be interested to see how the Brazilian manifold works with your port dividers.
Gordy
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#64825 - 05/18/11 11:14 AM
Re: intake port dividers (prototype)
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Well is anything new on the intake port dividers.
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