how to tell if engine is ported
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how to tell if engine is ported
how can you tell if your engine has been ported like street port or any of the other ones with out taking the engine apart
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You could pull the intake manifold to look at the ports and compare them to stock ones. Also put your fingers in there and feel the inside. There will be noticable difference.
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to tell if you have a street port.. you cant.. because the thats on the side housings.. internally.. you can tell if u have intake manifold(s) ported.. by taking the upper piece off and feel the runners.. they will feel smoother than usual...however... the street port can be heard at idle... the tach will move kinda like a bad idle.. bouncing a lil bit.. and u can hear the exhaust tone.. like a car wit cams... it goes brrrr.... brrrrr.....brrrrr....brrrr....brrrr like the idle is bouncing.. thats u can u tell if the side housings have been ported...it sounds kinda like a bridge port.. but a little less.... if you've heard a bridge port... you would know a street port.. . hopes this helps
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idles smooth.. but still has the brrr...brrr....brrr....brrrr...brrrr...brrrr kinda idle.... instead of the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr regular idle...
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You cannot tell a street port by it's idle.  ALL street ports should idle very smoothly.  A bridge port will tip you off with it's very cyclical brap-brap-brap idle.
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Originally posted by 13B2QuIcKNy
believe me!!!!!! u could hear it!!!!!!!!!!... compared to a regular non ported idle.. the street port sounds different.. specially if its a mild port...
believe me!!!!!! u could hear it!!!!!!!!!!... compared to a regular non ported idle.. the street port sounds different.. specially if its a mild port...
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Originally posted by kleach18
Doesn't it idle higher to?
Doesn't it idle higher to?
Also does the redline raise a little bit or something?
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Originally posted by 13B2QuIcKNy
believe me!!!!!! u could hear it!!!!!!!!!!... compared to a regular non ported idle.. the street port sounds different.. specially if its a mild port...
believe me!!!!!! u could hear it!!!!!!!!!!... compared to a regular non ported idle.. the street port sounds different.. specially if its a mild port...
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Im pretty sure my engines ported but not possitive. It idles at about 750-800 right now and is kind of unstable at times. I get abou 16-17 vacuum at this idle and the car seems very sluggish off the line. I will crank the idle up one of these days. Does this sound like its street ported?