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wolfie

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1st Jun, 2020 at 01:43:09pm

Is it worth dry decking the aluminium 7 port?

Quite alot of you guys have dry decked the cast iron heads but is it worth it on the aluminium head? If so can i dry deck it by just modifying the block as i really don't fancy having the head welded up.

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1st Jun, 2020 at 07:05:36pm

I'm not sure if its strictly 'worth it' but you certainly can just plug the block side and get the benifit of the improved distribution of coolant flow.


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1st Jun, 2020 at 07:26:33pm

Just plug the block with grub screws, there’s no need to do the head, unless you really want to create a genuine dry deck setup.

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1st Jun, 2020 at 09:07:34pm

Promotes cooling around No4 allegedly, while your carrying out some machining/drilling/tapping there is a mod to relieve the casting around the water pump that supposed to help.
Also worth thinking about if your going to be running an ally radiator also is a change of coolant from the usual IAT antifreeze.
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2nd Jun, 2020 at 02:05:27pm

I dry decked my 7 port SC head with brass grub screws sealed with some loctite thread sealant.

Can always return to wet deck if need be.

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