Re: Ah gotta love head porting in a 100 degree sho
DrEntropy said:
Goodgawd. Got a water hose someplace outdoors?
"HOSE ME DOWN.... I'M DONE!"
:laugh:
Doc, we call it a hose pipe in these necks of the woods, and that's good for about 5 minutes
I wouldn't expect you to know what it's like, your highs are my lows
When I complain about the heat to my wife who works in a climate controlled office, she doesn't get it. The only time she knows it's hot is in the 5 minutes at quitting time it takes her to walk to her car, and her car's A/C to kick in
It normally takes me about 2-3 week to get mentally adjusted to dealing with the heat, we hit 105 one day last year, the highest shop temp I can remember was a few years back at 112 degrees. I don't how the heck folks that work outside in this heat, do it. I guess I'm luckier than them becuase atleast I'm not in the direct sunlight, but 8+ weeks of 10 hour days dealing with shop temps hitting 100 or near it, can make you a little ornery to say the least.
Oh and as for discounts on head porting, that reminds me of a story I heard when I younger that car guy (Bud) I knew told me. He had a life long friend who could weld up old car gas tanks and reapaired them. Bud ask his friend about pricing on a old car gas tank he needed welded up, and could he get a discount since they went back a long way, he friend told him, when it came to welding gas tank Bud, I don't have any friends
Head porting is hard, nasty work, fiquire when you know what you doing and get pretty quick at it, it's still a good 20-25 hours of grinding work, much less the rest of the work it takes to produce the finished product ( guide work, repalcing seats, vlave job, decking, flowing, painting and assembly) . I see alot of amatuer porting jobs, and most don't do a tenth of what I do to a head, getting rid of the guide bosses is the biggest chore, most amatuer port jobs don't do this, after you get done with carbide bit work, it all goes a little quicker. So to answer your question, discounts and porting work are never combined
Porting work is like a punch in the nose, it never gets any easier over time