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Old Apr 22, 2014 | 04:40 PM
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I am beginning to cnc my harley heads, but iv been having a hard time getting a good lead on purchasing new castings. I am going to cut used casting but would like to cut some new castings so they will look perfect. but only lead i have is straight form dealer and they want a crazy prize for each head. I also have been looking for manifolds.
 
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Old Apr 23, 2014 | 05:03 AM
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when CNC porting stock heads,make sure you take in account for core shift
 
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Is there certain castings to watch for. I manly deal with v8 race heads but really like harley heads so wanted to start cutting them. I have also been throwing around idea for building a billet head that way i can raise runner much more and prob build a manifold to match it but i want to start with re cutting stock heads
that being said i would like to cut a few new heads so i can have a good show peace to get the ball rolling really to fund the r&d on the more race or high power street heads
 
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do you have a way to digitize heads?
 
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yes we have a digitizer i have some one one that is helping me write the program. i am the head guy at the shop i design the heads and our cnc guy digitizes them and cuts them like. i manly work on high rpm v8 motors so trying to trans transfer a lot of the knowledge that i have taken form them and put them into bike motors because i love racing cars but also really like bikes.
 
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