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409 E. Gardena Blvd. Suite B. Gardena CA. 90248 U.S.A.

Ph: 310-808-9704 310-977-2972

Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm Sat: 12-5 Sun: Closed All times PST

Dear Import Car Enthusiast:

My name is Joe Alaniz and I am the founder of ALANIZ Cylinder Head Technologies. I want to introduce myself and my business to you because I feel that the time has come for the owners of modern multivalve, high revving engines to be given the opportunity to choose a better way to extract the most from their engines.

Joe Alaniz (Air Flow Technician)

ALANIZ is a racing cylinder head porting and flow testing center formed in April of 2001. After 10 years of working in the racing head business for various shops and race teams, and a total of 15 years building all sorts of racing engines, I decided to strike out on my own to satisfy what I felt was a tremendous need in the market. That is, a cylinder head development shop focused primarily on multivalve, high revving engines using the latest designs and technologies.

The vast majority of modern engine designs utilize multivalve cylinder heads. The stringent demands for more power, better fuel mileage and better emissions virtually demand multivalve designs, particularly in small engines. While multivalve technology has been around since the 1930's (Harry Miller, who worked on the Offenhauser race engines is often credited with much of the work in this area. He also worked here in Southern California), it wasn't until the mid-1980s when manufacturers finally began to adopt the technology in mass-produced cars. Expense and manufacturing complexity were the limiting factor to that point. The problem is that many cylinder head shops use old porting and valve job techniques developed on older, well-understood, domestic iron cylinder heads. These techniques are quite valid on these well-seasoned designs, but do not always work on modern engines. More appallingly, applying these techniques to modern multivalve heads may actually hurt performance - and many porters will never know it because they don't regularly flow test heads. Some don't even own a flow bench. While the instincts and experience of these porters may tell them that certain techniques should work, modern heads are very sensitive to changes and often what works on one head, will be quite detrimental on a head that seems, on the surface, to be quite similar. I have done several development projects on cylinder heads that have behaved completely differently than I expected. It was only through careful research (and research is not done on a customers head) and flow testing that the true nature of the head was exposed.

ALANIZ FACILITY

It is this dedication to stringent testing and measurement that differentiates ALANIZ from other cylinder head porting operations. All our competition heads are blueprinted. Blueprinting is the process of measuring and checking all the critical features of the head. At ALANIZ, this starts when we receive a head. The chamber and ports are CC'd for volume. Then we flow test all customers heads over the normal operating range of lifts on our Superflow flowbench. If we have done previous heads of the same type, we'll then compare the results to see if the head is typical of the breed. If it isn't, we'll know we might need to take special steps to ensure performance. Once porting is done, we'll repeat the measurement process to make sure that the gains we expected are realized. If they aren't, or if the head is inconsistent, we go back and tweak until it is. We also leak test each and every valve seat to ensure proper sealing - something that I've found is sorely lacking in many "performance heads".

In the end, when I send you a completed head, you will get documentation. Before and after flow numbers, project maximum supported horsepower, chamber and port volumes. If you like, you can go verify these flow numbers on another Superflow flow bench and I will stand by them. And frankly, you won't get this information anywhere else. Furthermore, I don't do off-the-shelf heads. I can make a head flow better under a variety of conditions. Which areas I choose to improve most depends upon what you need. Running a low lift cam? Then I'll focus on improving flow in the operating lift range of the camshaft. Running a big race cam? Then I'll focus more on top end flow numbers. I strive to give you exactly what you want. If you aren't sure what that is, give me a call and let's talk about it.

The unfortunate side effect of all this testing and careful research is that at ALANIZ things take a bit longer to get done. I won't turn around a head in 3 days. It simply isn't how I do business. But, I also believe that good things are worth waiting for and I believe that the work you'll get from ALANIZ is the very best in the business. Quality comes before quantity and every head is backed with hard, fast numbers from proven measurement equipment. Even if you don't choose to send your head to me, I hope that after reading this, you'll understand a little more about what is involved in proper cylinder head work so the next time you talk to a head shop, you know what questions to ask.

Sincerely,

JOE ALANIZ

409 E. Gardena Blvd. Suite B. Gardena CA. 90248 U.S.A.

Ph: 310-808-9704 310-977-2972

Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm Sat: 12-5 Sun: Closed All times PST

Info: eliasalaniz@hotmail.com