Imagine, we have been actively engaged in this insane inline motor project for 7 years and someone e-mailed me about a post in reference to us.....on an inline site that was active and current. If this site has been active for 7 years it seems incredible that we didn't find out about it until now.
At any rate, thank you for the welcomes and in reply to the cylinder head question:
Early on in the R & D , we found that the cylinder heads available had an unuseable port ratio of 50% exhaust flow to intake. We've been racing Comp Eliminator in NHRA for 32 years with small block Chevies and no matter how much you improve the intake flow, if the exhast is going to be improved but still remain at 50%, you might as well stop before you begin.
We welded, fabricated, glued, sealed, dipped , siliconed and taped a prototype head together. After going through the phenomona of the IGOR develop[ement{ see inlinesix.com story}
we felt we had a good enough widjet to build a real one.
The head is a CNC billet that we wrote the program for and pushed enter {ya right}. 2 years later the 1st head was finished and it appears to work fine.....now we can push enter.
With the intake and exhaust on the same side the ports are designed without compromise { 470 cfm intake} The cross-flow design we started with wasn't even close.
That being said, we have never thought about selling any, although I'm sure everything has a price.
We'll be on the dyno next month with some new idea's to try. We look forward to a little less destuction next year, heck we ran from October 2004 to June 2005 without setting the valves even once { and IGOR lifts the intake valve 1 inch} and then we can't go 2 runs without throwing a rod out of it. You go from hero to zero real quick in this sport.
