Pinto Cylinder Head

[kipford]

Gents

Have the opportunity for a Vulcan Maxiflow 1 plus RL32 cam.

I also have a set of 40 Dellortos to fit on to it.

Question:

What does the panel think of the Vulcan head, does it do what it says on the box? I am not (yet) looking for bags of power and will it be ok for emissions on SVA?

ps engine is 2.0 L

Regards

Dave

[boris]

vulcan are quite well known for their pinto work from what i can gather and hence their work i believe is held in high regard.

A maxiflow 1 head should keep you more than happy for quite a while.

have you had a look at the vulcan website?, it would be worth a look

[BLOGGY S7]

Yeah I have a Maxiflow 1 head and it is very good. So yeah they get the thumbs up from me!!

[Blatman]

Head will be fine. You may find the 40's are the limiting factor depending on what size chokes you end up needing. Bill Shurvinton or m aybe Bob Green may have something to say on it...

[James]

vulcan are quite well known for their pinto work from what i can gather and hence their work i believe is held in high regard.

Depending who you talk to I had a new engine from them a copule of years back and consider them to be total   hole's then engine spat water from the head gasket after 600 miles and eventually died after 3000 miles, there customer service skills were shockingly bad and there attitude even worse in my experiance AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!!!!!    

[Liam]

I am not (yet) looking for bags of power

Oooh you will be....ooh yes

I have a Vulcan engine and I am very pleased with it

[Boxerman33]

I had 2.1 pinto with Vulcan Head & FR32 Cam, it ran well enough but swapping from twin 40's to bike carbs made a huge difference

[James]

Vulcan

ROBBING b******dS!!!!    

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

You don't hide your light under a bushel James, do you? Is a public forum the right place to make such forthright allegations?

[Blatman]

Vulcan

ROBBING b******dS!!!!    

No offence is intended but...

You were prepared last year to remove a perfectly good ATB from your car as you believed that it made your car handle worse. With the greatest respect I think there may be enough gaps in your mechanical/engineering knowledge that such an allegation from you may not carry the weight that it might otherwise.

I have dealt with Vulcan a few times, and whilst they aren't ever the cheapest, they *do* know their Pinto's and I will be visiting them again in the future.

[kipford]

I get the drift majority seem in favour.

Thanks for your thoughts

Dave

[Liam]

I had 2.1 pinto with Vulcan Head & FR32 Cam, it ran well enough but swapping from twin 40's to bike carbs made a huge difference

Interesting. I'm running a similar engine on 45's at present and getting a healthy 159. What effect did bike carbs have

[James]

Vulcan

ROBBING b******dS!!!!    

No offence is intended but...

You were prepared last year to remove a perfectly good ATB from your car as you believed that it made your car handle worse. With the greatest respect I think there may be enough gaps in your mechanical/engineering knowledge that such an allegation from you may not carry the weight that it might otherwise.

I have dealt with Vulcan a few times, and whilst they aren't ever the cheapest, they *do* know their Pinto's and I will be visiting them again in the future.

No offence taken...

BUT My mechanical knowledge is NOT in question! There quality and service is in MY experinace as a customer of this company there quality in terms of workmanship is NOT what you would expect from the money you pay and the service they offer is nothing short of CRAP!!! I dont like being robbed and when I pay good money for an engine that only lasts 3000 miles and requires a head gasket after 600 miles I feel robbed.

You are obviously very knowledgable Blatman BUT you are not always correct, you do seem to take pleasure in using your knowledge to put others down, my mechanical experiance may not be as extensive as yours however this does not for one second invalidate the experiances that I have recived from a company and it should certainly not invalidate my post when all I am trying to do is worn a pottential victim.

I am sure if the product is fine and there are no problems then Kipford we no doubt be very happy and will think the world of that company jow ever bear in mind that you can only really judge how good a company is when things go wroong as they some times do, only then can you find out if that company is as good as you hope.

From MY experiance of Vulcan I would have to say that there customer service and the quality of there goods IMHO are well below par. Other company's have in the past given me exellent service Vulcan is however NOT one of them and |I shall continue to worn people.

I would apreciate it if you did not try to bully your way into trying to convince people that other members do not have credibility on this forum, and trying to invalidate there personel experiances.

[Boxerman33]

I had 2.1 pinto with Vulcan Head & FR32 Cam, it ran well enough but swapping from twin 40's to bike carbs made a huge difference

Interesting. I'm running a similar engine on 45's at present and getting a healthy 159. What effect did bike carbs have

Even after a decent rolling road set up I used to get slight hesitation with the webber carbs particularly after backing off then accelerating again, the bike carb conversion completely eliminated that and gave instant throttle response. I also gained a few BHP in the process, up from 155 BHP ish to 165+BHP from memory.

To be honest I didn't really notice the power increase so much but the throttle response was vastly improved in all situations

[James]

Oh and interestingly my last Westi was a standard 2.0 on 40's with 36mm chokes, the only work the engine recived was some flow work by Mike Tanski (Top Bloke I would HIGHLY recomend him for an engine 01785 621710 and head work) this little engine with standard cams produced 153BHP the head cost me £185.00 NO VAT so I ask you why does Vulcan charge so much money