Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:18 pm
Hi Mike
QEP were very friendly and helpful - they turned the head around from sitting on the bench as a good spare at their place to ready to fit at 2 days notice. They skimmed it, replaced stem seals on the valves and reground the seats. We'd already established the original head was toast, so knew we were into a replacement. Cost was very reasonable - head looked pretty much like new.
I did enquire about whether it was worth doing anything to mod it, but was told it really wasn't worth it unless you were getting into cams as well - also said they've previously flow tested heads that've been ported elsewhere and the results have been highly variable. They do Thunder Saloons so they're not afraid of going silly on engines but unless you're going to the lengths that Puma Racing used to to extract a small amount of extra power, plus the cost of cams (they import catcams) then the advice was leave well alone.
They have a couple of those new engines that Citroen were shifting some time ago that were designed for cats sitting in their reception area on stands, all built up. Apparently an inlet cam will free up enough power to get them over the stock 160BHP and of course there's the benefit of it being brand new!
QEP were very friendly and helpful - they turned the head around from sitting on the bench as a good spare at their place to ready to fit at 2 days notice. They skimmed it, replaced stem seals on the valves and reground the seats. We'd already established the original head was toast, so knew we were into a replacement. Cost was very reasonable - head looked pretty much like new.
I did enquire about whether it was worth doing anything to mod it, but was told it really wasn't worth it unless you were getting into cams as well - also said they've previously flow tested heads that've been ported elsewhere and the results have been highly variable. They do Thunder Saloons so they're not afraid of going silly on engines but unless you're going to the lengths that Puma Racing used to to extract a small amount of extra power, plus the cost of cams (they import catcams) then the advice was leave well alone.
They have a couple of those new engines that Citroen were shifting some time ago that were designed for cats sitting in their reception area on stands, all built up. Apparently an inlet cam will free up enough power to get them over the stock 160BHP and of course there's the benefit of it being brand new!
