Thanks Mark, Can you add a link to the specific Chinese heads? I?m trying to decide what to do on that front.
Cheers, Owen > On Jun 21, 2016, at 9:00 AM, krnet-request at list.krnet.org wrote: > > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 04:31:17 -0700 > From: <ml at n56ml.com <mailto:ml at n56ml.com>> > To: "KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org <mailto:krnet at list.krnet.org>> > Subject: KR> VW cylinder heads > Message-ID: > <20160621043117.d04b1abb1c854b54fd3150a99c6879d4.3a2036a6e6.wbe at > email04.godaddy.com > <mailto:20160621043117.d04b1abb1c854b54fd3150a99c6879d4.3a2036a6e6.wbe at > email04.godaddy.com>> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > To add to the insightful post that Owen Hughes (SVD) wrote yesterday day > on VWs, I would avoid the Mofoco heads. The photos show lots of fins, > and that's great, but what they are lacking is cooling air passages, I > mean almost nothing. If the air's not flowing through the fins, they're > going to run hot. I'm looking into this same subject lately, now that > it's gotten hot and I fly in the 90's most of the time, and I'm tired of > seeing 400F when I'm only 500' off the runway on the first flight of the > day. I ran across a photo over the weekend from a Dec 2010 Hot VWs > article that showed bottom views of 18 heads they reviewed, and > Fomoco's weren't so great. On the other hand, the "Chinese" heads were > awesome, lots of daylight between the fins, and by most accounts I've > found, the quality is very high, and the price quite reasonable. DRD > Aircooled sells them, and I plan to order some tonight. Whatever you > buy, make sure you get stainless valves! > > Another good chart that wraps up a lot of VW head details is at > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=573099 > <http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=573099> > > Mark Langford, Harvest, AL > ML "at" N56ML.com <http://n56ml.com/> > www.N56ML.com <http://www.n56ml.com/> >
