[HeadDoctor]

Tom

Now it seems that rather than trying to help "FastBack" out, you and I are having a difference of opinion. - I'm an old-fart - and I've been in this business since 1958 - but that in no way discounts what you know and understand about what you do and or say. Everyone has opinions but it is how you say that explanation - I'm not actually recomending anything because it's his money, thus his choice and his decision to make. However I'm not discounting his intelligence to make that choice, by being overly pat with my information, neither am I trying to make that decision for him by arbitraraly stating things that are not evident to me in his post.

You and I both know that all cast intake manifolds restrict the flow into the head somewhat and that is relative to the intake being discussed. Hence when you port the intake it always increases the flow into the head - Now it is not only less expensive to port the intake than it is to port the heads but the work invloved for R&R is also less time consuming, hence less expensive. Consequently when the owner decides; at a later date, to move on with hopping up the engine he can then get the heads ported, make a cam change or some other valuable HP increasing modifications.

I generally don't make recomendations unless asked for - but I do make suggestions that are relevent to the post I'm looking at - In this case I made 3 suggestions,
1) Regarding the "LOOK" verses performance
2) Performance indicated the use of the Trick-Flow intake
3) If you want both the look of the GT-40 and the performance of the Trick-Flow then you are going to have to get the GT-40 ported

Nowhere in my post did I say send it to me to have that work done - because again - it is his choice and his decision. Just because I've been in this business for 48 years doesn't mean that I have all the answers either - I learn something new every day - and that is how it should be.

Again let FastBack make his own choices and decisions - just be as honest and truthful as anyone can be every time any suggestion is made, and only give specific recomendations when asked for.

Denny@JDS Induction Products