About the Guest: Joe Mondello is owner of the Mondello Technical School & professor of it's porting class. Chevrolet performance cylinder heads still utilize the identical combustion chamber, which Joe designed in the early 1960's known as the "Posi-Flow" chamber. Joe Mondello designed open chamber big and small block Chevy cylinder heads and pistons long before Chevy did. www.mondello.com
About the Show:
- Air Flow Testing Tools:
- Flowbench - Best? Cheapest? Building your own?
- Diagnostic tools (flow balls, pressure probe, velocity probe, etc)
- What are your core beliefs on air flow?
- Head Porting: (Joes's thoughts on each area)
- Gasket
- Pushrod
- Roof
- Floor
- Walls
- Short turn
- Bowl
- Guide
- Seat
- Combustion chamber
- Valves:
- Diameter - How do you decide?
- Face - Angle? (45', 55', etc)
- Back cuts - Angle(s)? Width?
- Shape?
- Fixing flow problems:
- Poor low lift
- Poor mid lift
- Poor high lift
- CFM backs up at upper lifts
- Turbulent (noisy)
- Other problems?
- Other:
- How to Duplicate your work
- The biggest head porting mistakes you've seen?
- Intake manifold porting tips?
- Current trends in porting?
Forum: Post questions / comments for this guest
Title: "Porting Professor"