merlin grumpy jenkin cast heads
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Has anybody done any porting work on merlins grumpy jenkins heads ( cast ) and to what affect on hp in the motor, did it help or not . Winter project maybe
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They are stones stock, I used to run them on my blower motor, it was a stone too. I had them race ported, the numbers improved drastically especially the exhaust flow but the low flow numbers dropped which I hear is common. I never did run them and will use them some day so I can't report actual results BUT they respond quite well to a full out port job from everything I have ever seen and heard, Smitty
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But................what size Merlin heads and what exact engine build up do you have them on ?
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I think they are 345 cc, i will check
731 crane cam
dart intake
holley 830
glm 4 inch exhaust with drew marine shotgun mufflers
crane ingition rev limiter set at 4350 ( hot wire )
731 crane cam
dart intake
holley 830
glm 4 inch exhaust with drew marine shotgun mufflers
crane ingition rev limiter set at 4350 ( hot wire )
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Fukked up thing about merlins stock is the exhaust port is the same on them no matter how big the intake port is, never made sense to me, they ALL need to be ported , I had a pair of out of box 310's on my blown 540 and couldn't break 700 hp, went to afr 315 cnc's and a little bit bigger cam and made 945hp on next go around, Smitty
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compression ?
4350 rev limit - typo ? Or someone smoking crack ? LOL.
Please restate max rpms.
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Fukked up thing about merlins stock is the exhaust port is the same on them no matter how big the intake port is, never made sense to me, they ALL need to be ported , I had a pair of out of box 310's on my blown 540 and couldn't break 700 hp, went to afr 315 cnc's and a little bit bigger cam and made 945hp on next go around, Smitty
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I ran into a similar situation about 6 or 7 years ago on 540 with a set of ported 990's. It was a nice dart block build in a '66-67 Chevelle. The owner was very disapointed when it made 540HP on the dyno. A mutual friend put him in contact with me and he pulled the heads and flowed them. They were around 48% or 50% I/E ratio. The Lunati that was in it was around a 6 degree split and it needed about 24 degrees of split or more. I lessoned the intake duration and increased the exhaust by a ton. The customer agreed to try it.
I ran into a similar situation about 6 or 7 years ago on 540 with a set of ported 990's. It was a nice dart block build in a '66-67 Chevelle. The owner was very disapointed when it made 540HP on the dyno. A mutual friend put him in contact with me and he pulled the heads and flowed them. They were around 48% or 50% I/E ratio. The Lunati that was in it was around a 6 degree split and it needed about 24 degrees of split or more. I lessoned the intake duration and increased the exhaust by a ton. The customer agreed to try it.
The Merlins just happen to be not so good.
Last edited by SB; 10-09-2011 at 08:47 PM.