Fiat 16v head porting

[MrBoost]

Hi Guy

i have had a fair amount of experience porting and polishing 8v Fiat heads with varying results however i have never done any work on the integrale 16v other than a cleanup of the ports. Have you done any porting on these heads and gained good results? what sort of results are we talking and if you are interested how much would i be looking at to get you to do it? Also is there any point trying to get any bigger valves for them?

i have previously run a head i bought from italy years ago it was off a 037 wreck. The head has been on my race car and i have just sold the head for a rather generous amount and am now looking at replacing it with an integrale head. By the way this is all for turbo application.
Firstly do you know if the integrale flows better or worse than the 037 abarth head and secondly do you know if over whereva you are if you can get 12mm head bolts for the integrale head?

any help greatly appreciated

regards

[Guy Croft]

Hi

for starters this may be helpful:

http://guy-croft.com/viewtopic.php?t=80

I've ported quite a few 16v Integrale type heads (as Tipo, Coupe etc) and they can yield very good results see:

http://guy-croft.com/viewtopic.php?t=98

The 16v heads Integrale vs Abarth Gp4 flow the same in stock trim, 130cfm @ 10" from memory.

GC