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Old Dec 31, 2007 | 11:01 AM
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i was looking on stang net and i saw people selling PI heads and cams are those the same thing that our cars come with stock or are they an upgrade from what we have stock? i dont really know too much about heads and cams so any info would help.
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Old Dec 31, 2007 | 11:17 AM
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you already have pi parts on your car non pi is 98-98 from 99- 2004 you already have pi parts.
Old Dec 31, 2007 | 11:47 AM
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Like Flash said they are only an upgrade for us 96-98 guys. 99-04 cars already have them. The only real options for heads for our cars are just port and polished pi heads. Which you can purchase through different shops.
Old Dec 31, 2007 | 11:49 AM
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^what they said.
Old Dec 31, 2007 | 12:19 PM
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^what they said.

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Old Dec 31, 2007 | 01:21 PM
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here's a dumb question... why is everyone caught up on port and "polish", what part of the heads is supposed to be polished? I've have 2 sets of aftermarket heads (Livernois and Patriot) and both are CNC ported, which from what I'm told is better than the "old" port and polished heads. Am I missing something?
Old Dec 31, 2007 | 01:43 PM
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Force of habbit from the Old school days more than likely.
Old Dec 31, 2007 | 01:49 PM
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Force of habbit from the Old school days more than likely.
could be but I think most people just don't know any better, all they hear is port and polish, port and polish, port and polish so they think it's polished. I was pretty sure that no company makes a P&P head for our cars, I just wanted to make sure.

To me it's like people saying the N2O is NOS.
Old Dec 31, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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Yeah, NOS is the company and N20 is the stuff in the bottle! lol
Old Dec 31, 2007 | 03:34 PM
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It's just a term... I certainly hope people don't think you are actually getting out some mothers aluminum polish and shinning up the head. Polishing can simply mean cleaning up the tool marks after you go through with the CNC machine.



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