I've read around and figure that this might not be as terrible a task to take on myself as I thought. I should be receiving a VERY cheap head (not crappy, price...it will probably cost less than what it will to ship it) soon. How much should I shave off? My car currently has a pacesetter header (I don't know what size the piping is) and I'm devising a way to have a new intake manifold fabricated and thus don't really have any limitation there. I have a dremel and will probably buy a few more bits for it to do this. Any other suggestions/comments regarding the matter would be greatly appreciated.
(btw: its a 1998 2200)

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yo it's dane...im looking to get mine p+p as well....how's things been going ...we should hang out sometime.

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I would ask MadJack, OHVnotec, and theres 1 or 2 more that ive gotten a ton of infor from on the OHV motor before. They know almost too much . I just put on a head that is ported with +1mm SS valves, its got some issues (lifter clacking) so i am afraid to go above like 2500RPM (even though people have said, given the conditions it should be ok)... It pulls a hole lot more just driving it easy, I cant wait to get this problem fixed this weekend and go out for some test driving.

Good luck with the project!

And What are you thinking of doing for a manifold? I might be interested in something, depending on if theres a worthwhile gain to it.

Thanks, I'll make sure to ask them. The biggest thing I didn't know was how much to shave off for decent performance. I hope all goes well with your build. As far as the manifold goes, I'm considering taking the extra intake manifold I have and cutting the flanges off so I can fabricate a new one (I'd have my uncle scan them into a cad machine and make some modifications to them). The only suggestion I can make as far as gain is look at a mustang perf. manifold and split the expected hp gain in half.

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