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Bought full set of Metro Vented 4 pot brakes in my rucksack from London. Very funny. Only got asked once what the 14kilos of metal was in my rucksack. Still brakes like a very brakey thing!

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You rotton Sod...but where is the 8 Port Head

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I was having a chat with Greg (miniclassic) when he was in our shop the other day about heads, he also reckoned the aussie made 8 port was the way to go if one was to go that way, but he reckoned they need a grand of headwork to get them right even then.... 3k jumps quickly to 4k... bummer
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Then the Uk Ebay 8 por4t head is out for me then :cry:

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Have a look at flow test comparisons here-
http://www.planet.eon.net/~chichm/tech/8-port.htm

Graham Russell was porting the Elder head for him a while back, but these figures were taken before this was done.

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to much reading B4 Trination tomorrow Arvo.
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Have a look at flow test comparisons here-
http://www.planet.eon.net/~chichm/tech/8-port.htm

Graham Russell was porting the Elder head for him a while back, but these figures were taken before this was done.


Do i recall reading on his (Marcels) site that there were pretty severe casting defects in the Elder head? And he sent it back? Has Mr Elder got his casting sh&t together now? What kind of warranty does he offer? For $3K +$1K to machine it, i would expect top quality casting.

Colin at Spriteparts also reckons he gets more HP out of the Elder head than the Arden or Westlake.....

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Yeah I heard it flowed well on the flowbench (eventually), dunno if it got put on the dyno or not..

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