| My fascination for engines dates back further than I can remember. My most faint memories are of my Dad taking me to the local dirt track races friday nights. I think the biggest thing that influenced this career path was the NHRA nationals my Dad took me to at an age of around 12. I remember the chills that were sent up my spine the first time I heard a real pro-stock racing engine rev up near 10,000 rpm. After seeing the cardboard boxes placed over the intake manifold whenever the hood was off, I knew there was something going on in the Pro-stock tents. The faster and louder top fuelers had nothing to hide, hell they wanted to have you come up and pretty much touch the engine. I knew very quickly that the real power was being made in the Pro-stock group, and I was determined to know why. I quickly learned over the years that passed that airflow was the key to power production. At age 15 I ported my first set of heads for my Chevy Nova drag car. After I destroyed the heads with a harmless "gasket match" I learned from my mistakes and I strove to improve on every port job that followed. I bought some good books and spent my nights reading what guys like Smokey Yunick and Bill Jenkins had to say rather than studying for what my Mom thought was really important at the time- that history report!
I was paying to have my heads flow tested at the time, as I wanted to know how well I was improving the head flow. Several port jobs followed throughout the years for my own engines, friends, and eventually customers.
My first major break came when I met a local machinist who got to see some of the work I was doing. The machinist informed me of a new head porting shop that was just getting off the ground, and happened to be in our immediate area. The machinist gave me a phone number, and eventually later that day I met my future employer after being hired on the spot. I was very fortunate to be able to work for this man. He was fresh off of a NASCAR Winston Cup team. Not only that, but he was a part of a team that won the championship. Working in the engine room, he was exposed to some very cutting edge race engine technology. His background also included some time spent at several other leading highly recognized engine shops in the country at the time. My time there was spent absorbing as much information about airflow and race engines as possible and performing the best work I possibly could do, applying the knowledge I was learning.
My first year there was spent primarily duplicating port shapes my employer had developed and transferring them to the rest of the cylinders' ports. As time went on, my employer's confidence grew and eventually I was performing the entire porting process to heads. This carried on full time for the next 5 years, and part-time several years after that. I ported many heads ranging from a variety of motorsports. I watched as my craftsmanship aided in the annual growth of a well-respected porting facility. I got the opportunity to work on some very high end projects and racing cylinder heads which included NHRA Pro FWD, NHRA Pro-Stock Bike, record holding land speed cars, championship motocross bikes, the world's fastest water cooled Volkswagon, the world's fastest Mazda Miata, a Speed Vision touring car, and many other race teams ranging from a variety of motorsports.
I reached a point working for this company that I felt my desire to learn was no longer a concern for the owner, and I left to start a new path on my own. This eventually led me to continue my fascination of airflow by starting my own company, Boport Racing Heads.
I had some regrets leaving the company initally, but those thoughts were soon diminished as soon as my brand new Flow bench showed up. The amount of knowledge I had obtained about airflow in the first year of owning my own flow equipment was worth the move. The research and development never stops, I am and always will be determined to be the best at what I do.
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