Water Cooled 8 Valve non cross-flow VW cylinder head

[March 79B]

Could anyone suggest a shop that does excellent porting combustion chamber work and other cylinder head work for the water cooled 8 valve non cross-flow VW head that was used on the VW Rabbit/Sirocco from the late 70'2 to early 80's? thanks for any information and your time and consideration. Jerry

 

[racer_tim]

Scientific Rabbit, Derek Werthmullers

<werthmullers@verizon.net>

I'm having a new head done by FAT Performance in Orange, CA. They did my bottom end earlier in the year, and prepped the stock head, when I was running the H Prod spec motor in GTL. Now that I have switched to carbs, I can have the head fully ported, larger valves, no limit on cam lift, etc. done, so he's building me a new head. They used to build Water VW's and Toyota 4AGE's for the buggy off road classes before they went with a spec/sealed motor. He's having to knock out the cobwebs to remember all the cool tricks that they did back in the day, but they do great work.

Greg Aronson

<fatperf@gmail.com>

www.fatperformance.com
1558 N. Case Street
Orange, CA 92867
Phone: 714 637-2889
Fax: 714 637-7352

 

[Joe Harlan]

Could anyone suggest a shop that does excellent porting combustion chamber work and other cylinder head work for the water cooled 8 valve non cross-flow VW head that was used on the VW Rabbit/Sirocco from the late 70'2 to early 80's? thanks for any information and your time and consideration. Jerry

Slovers Porting service
818) 768-0155

 

[hoffman900]

Not a VW specialist, but a really great cylinder head porter / R&D guy. Being from the Midwest, his prices are pretty great too.

Nick Smithberg
Smithberg Racing
1901 Clay Street
Fort Calhoun, Nebraska
(402) 616-7643

http://smithber.ipower.com/6273.html
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smithber ... 2780930205

Here is a head I had him do for me:

Does great work on iron too:

Miata head currently under R&D:

 

[KeithG]

I may have a complete super vee head that sounds like what you're looking for. IIRC it's from Bertils. It was purchased for a GT4 Rabbit project a long time ago. Weren't there several other guys who specialized in these things back in the day?
keith at Hasport dot com