NA head on 951?
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There is no performance advantage unless you do ALOT of porting and valve work to it, unless your talking about a 16v head. The only advantage i can think of is not having to worry about ceramic breaking off.
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The N/A head isn't cast around ceramic exhaust port liners. This means that the exhaust ports can be opened up, which means that you can obtain significant flow increases on the exhaust side of the equation.... which is far more important on a turbo engine than the intake side of the equation since you have pressure to force feed the intake side and make up for (relatively speaking) restrictive intake port design.
Even with stock 951 valve sizes, the N/A head can make substantially more power than you could ever get out of a ceramic port 951 head.
This is why all the big name 951 engine builders use N/A heads.
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Sorry.. I disagree.
The N/A head isn't cast around ceramic exhaust port liners. This means that the exhaust ports can be opened up, which means that you can obtain significant flow increases on the exhaust side of the equation.... which is far more important on a turbo engine than the intake side of the equation since you have pressure to force feed the intake side and make up for (relatively speaking) restrictive intake port design.
Even with stock 951 valve sizes, the N/A head can make substantially more power than you could ever get out of a ceramic port 951 head.
This is why all the big name 951 engine builders use N/A heads.
TonyG
The N/A head isn't cast around ceramic exhaust port liners. This means that the exhaust ports can be opened up, which means that you can obtain significant flow increases on the exhaust side of the equation.... which is far more important on a turbo engine than the intake side of the equation since you have pressure to force feed the intake side and make up for (relatively speaking) restrictive intake port design.
Even with stock 951 valve sizes, the N/A head can make substantially more power than you could ever get out of a ceramic port 951 head.
This is why all the big name 951 engine builders use N/A heads.
TonyG
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IMO the NA head is a much better choice. Having looked at a few turbo heads the ceramic liners are not always (not even close) lined up correctly with the valve seat creating a serious obstruction.
Personally I ported my liners to clean up the short side and to eliminate the obstruction. Looking back I should have just stuck the NA head on. I have a few cars and I wanted to keep them all operable
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If I were you
I would get a NA head
use the turbo exhaust valves ( that is debatable depending on cars use)
use the springs from the turbo head or get new ones
This opens up many possibilities for future porting that the Turbo head does not.
Personally I ported my liners to clean up the short side and to eliminate the obstruction. Looking back I should have just stuck the NA head on. I have a few cars and I wanted to keep them all operable
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If I were you
I would get a NA head
use the turbo exhaust valves ( that is debatable depending on cars use)
use the springs from the turbo head or get new ones
This opens up many possibilities for future porting that the Turbo head does not.