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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN
Acid porting is a "misnomer". The "acid" and now today "Media blasting" just hides the port work being done. Its been more than 20 years since I first became aware of it and the "powers to be" just turned thier heads exceot for the S/S head rule change. Let the games begin.
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I know it was done in 1979 I have quite a story about that. Won't get into it here.
And NO we never ran anything but a "true" stock head.( A look at our MPH could verify that).One of the main reasons we quit stock eliminator in 1981. If we continued to race in stock, we would have been forced to do it. And if we were to get caught I didn't want "the world" to think we were doing it all along.
Thats is why I get hostile when somebody talks bad about boost on the turbo cars. To raise airflow on a turbo car it costs about a dollar. How much is it to acid port, chemically clean, media blast,etc a head and intake manifold? Run a "stocker" cam? ETC. ETC.
I always thought stock should be kept as low buck as possible. I remember winning the York US 30 invitational and having to spend the Monday following the race at the track because they paid us by check and the banks weren't open till Tuesday. Once we made the semi finals we spent what gas money we had on food, knowing we were in the money.