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  1. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    If you are considering a ported iron head, then you definitely want to consider the D-port, because the price is pretty much the same if you figure in the price of a core. If you have a cracked iron head and you have trouble finding a good one, then it's a good alternative. I wouldn't say it's...
  2. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    :D
  3. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    Yep, complete with Manley valves, CV Products guides and Crower springs...I think they might be $1600 now, but I'm not positive.
  4. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    Here's the post you missed on the welding deal...now you can be an "expert" on welding heads, too. :rolleyes: http://forums.stangnet.com/showthread.php?p=4933846#post4933846 I'd be "happier" if you'd stop telling everyone how easy the swap is when you haven't managed to do it yourself in...
  5. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    And $3500 is for a complete ARCA head with whatever cam you want. Even the valves are adjusted. I basically have an ARCA on the wagon with a short-track oval cam. A bare CNC-ported SVO head is 15-16 hundred or it's the same price for a D-port with valves. They only sell ARCAs complete...
  6. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    The Pinto went 10.70's in street trim and I drove it all the way across the country and back on the Power Tour and ran 10.90 along the way in St. Louis. Me = "doer" You = "talker" Sooooo...what's stopping you from making a fast car? It can't be talent, brains or money...
  7. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    I already made a fairly detailed post regarding that...you may want to read it.
  8. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    Yeah...I was sponsored like Mark Martin...LOL...good one...yeah, having to build a new shell helped me go faster :rolleyes:...getting a fifth of what it costs to build the car (not to mention race it) was a bit of a help initially...but like all wannabees, you don't really "get" how the world...
  9. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    That rather goes without saying...
  10. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    Yep, we're all waiting...
  11. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    Great...good for you. A little bit of welding isn't too bad. A lot of welding is very bad. It anneals the metal...undoes the heat-treat, distorts the casting and will loosen the seats and guides. If you try and re-heat treat it, you have to re-machine the head from scratch, because it will...
  12. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    I CAN talk about the Volvo deal...it's not a mechanically sound idea. It doesn't fit. There are better swaps (the rest of the motor for one...). Like I said before, I don't have to put my hand in a blender to know it will hurt. Unlike you, I have experience with building high-performance...
  13. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    Yep everyone talks about doing it...nobody does it. Ask PA about them...LOL...see if they'll pay the frieght (NO)...they're like Paul Bunyan. Everyone talks about them, but nobody has actually seen one in person. Glides...that world is populated by Glides...but then, you've never been to that...
  14. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    They're selling pallets of heads...to RACERS. I don't get money from Esslinger, they're my friends. They help me with my car and I help them when I can. You could cannibalize every 16V Volvo motor in the world and it wouldn't make one bit of difference to me or them...about .00005% of...
  15. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    That's because you're a fool. That's what fools do. I didn't take out any loans to build my car, I busted my ass for several years campaigning the Pinto wherever I could and my hard work and consistency got me a very minor league hookup through Ford (body) and K&N (part of the construction...
  16. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    No. You could buy the car and build it for that at full retail. Shidel went as fast as you have for about a grand, didn't he? You can run in the 11's on an UNPORTED iron head if you're on the ball (MC Racing in KC). And like I said before...flap your jaws about how fast your...
  17. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    You did that with a Volvo already???? Why didn't you say something? :shrug: OHHHH...you're talking about all the stuff I've been doing since the early 80's...ohhhh...I see...LOL Good job guy...I'm sure you can probably pull off a small-block Chevy swap, too. :rolleyes: Then in that...
  18. gio_momma

    If anyone could be interested

    Welll...I didn't bother to bolt the turbo stuff on the existing shortblock that was in it "because it was there". The point was to build a fast, reliable and affordable car. So far, it looks like I've accomplished all three and you've accomplished NONE. So what's your aversion to just...
  19. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    I've said it before...as far as I'm concerned, these boards are no different than a garage you'd hang out in with your buddies. Nobody would whine and snivel if the local "top gun" told you were full of crap..either you prove him wrong or do what he says. Somehow on the Internet, it seems...
  20. gio_momma

    Yo "Mr.Woodster"...

    Hawwahh???? They just shot the car Sunday...:eek: Dayum...those guys don't mess around...LOL
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