Head Porting...What is the True Value??

I am pretty much off the fact that I am not going to do any head work to my heads. Everyone keeps saying that the ones that I have are really good, so I will leave them alone.

HRK, Bishops even says that I have a good set.... Heck, they are the ones that recommended these....

BTW, are these XB's the Thunderbolt heads????

They are good heads JB, but they could benefit from a clean up to get rid of any casting flaws, like ridges and shrouding like Kirby and BP mentioned...

their actully thunderstorm,not thunderbolt,and their not XB heads.they are heads that came some buell models.both are very nice heads,but really need alittle work to get the full potential out of them

Whatever.... Now changing the heads is something that I may be willing to do. I remember when I bought my SE's my dealership had suggested the THUNDERSTORMS. Can't remember why exactly now I chose the SE's over the Buell heads at the moment. It could have been price...

Ok...but I did find some xb heads on ebay for what seems to be a reasonable price.

Probably be cheaper to just get different ones.....

JB,the SE heads youve got are VERY nice heads,leaps & bounds over stock & will produce alot of power,i never said to get other heads,just that they can be better,but even right out the box,they work fine on most builds

are you doing . are yo crazy bro . hey if you want to throw money away send it to me hell !!!! just fix the air fuel ratio and make the exhaust will ya that bike will run just fine your fat on the bottom and you were lean up top fix it !!!!! it will run great stop throwing money at a fire brother . finish one thing on the bike before you start to f up and end up with a mess . sorry man sometimes i gotta tell it like it is and if i did not i would not be a freind . jhonny make up your mind on what ya gonna do and stick to it . or else you will never get it done bro!!!!:gah:

Now I never said that I was going to buy the xb heads, I am just asking what people like better. The xb or the SE. Is there some sort of issue with that that I am not aware of????

I highly doubt that...where can you get a set of hi-per heads for a few hundred??

There are a few sets available on ebay that I found. I was going to ask if i would be able to take the springs, valves, guides, retainers and so on out of my SE's and put them in there, but I am just trying to discover if this is possible first. I guess it doesn't matter anyways...

whats the difference between thunderstorm or xb heads or are they the same

They prolly would fit JB,but why bother going through all that and still have a set of off the shelf heads that you'd have to send to a guy like Kirby to have them reach their full potential...you have a really good set now,but assembly line heads aren't perfect... if you want them maximized,they have to be sent to a porter,not just anybody claiming to be a porter either,like I believe was mentioned before, someone who has been putting food on their table for 25 or 30 years or more doing it...experience matters...