Bending a rodney

as far as the epoxied tubes on the intake ports, back when I was machinist 30 yrs ago, I would set the heads up in a milling machine. Then I'd put a piece of a drill rod in the intake pushrod hole for each port, I'd edge find that near edge of the drill rod, then I'd step the cutter over so I'd leave 0.100" or 0.125" wall and mill that interior wall of the port. Then you can continue hand porting the intake but just feathering it into the milled area. I think it works slick.