Maybe "a grain of salt" isn't the best way to put it. I have the flow numbers, and I am happy with them, because I know the head is a proven head. You also have to remember these flow numbers are being created with a constant dry flow... That does not show what they head will do on an engine, which is a cycled, wet flow. What the head does on the flow bench does not directly convert into HP. You can have a head that flows like gang busters, but if the CSA is way off for the engine, it isn't going to work very well.
The flow bench is a good tool to help make a head work, but at the end of the day, it is the total engine design that needs to be right.
Is this engine the ideal combo? No, it really should have a bigger head, and bigger header, and a converter, and gears etc.... But I am using the parts I have, kind of makes it more fun to try and guess what it will make. Or at least that's what I am telling myself. haha.
1wild&crazyguy, I appreciate the interest you have in my project, and the tech talk. I am not trying to be snappy or anything either if it is coming across that way.