1W&CG stated it preety good for "8 beers into it."
Heres a peice of good news. No matter what your head flow is, great combo cam be put togther without getting nutz on the cam specs.
A basic view;
Build the engine to compliment the cars intended performance.
A race car will look for every bit of lift and then some. (As mentioned before) More lift than the head flow, excesive converter and gear.
A street strip car will look to mimic the race car, but with a little less comp. ratio for pump gas, a litle less cam and converter. Total cam lift at or near max head flow.
A high performance street machine will look for things like a milder cam that doesn't take advantage of the heads flow ability's 100%. Maybe some where in the 85% plus area.
Total cam lift would be close but yet still a bit far away from peak flow. The head may not be fully ported ethier.
High performance street will not care so much. An example of pocket ported head, the lift may even be as short of peak head flow abilty by .030 lift.
CFM & HP gain talk again;
time to have fun... race car dosnt look for anything.only the racer does and hopes he did enough.example stockers in nhra are stuck with a lot of numbers we dont like as racers but 71 demons in stock class run 11.98 et pretty fast.and in racing there are winners and losers some with the right stuff and some without.
a street strip car doesnt mimic anything my version of street strip is different then yours. i tend to go more to the edge probably
a high performance street machine doesn't look for anything, i do as a builder.example a 589 head and rhs head isn't as big as a w2 head but the factory put them on the little red express proto type trucks and ran stock 340 cam holley 600 stock comp 360 and ran 13s in the quarter and smoke the comp.
point is this my w2 s out of the box flow 265 at .450 lift if that what the factory was working with i now there smarter then you and me its good enough for me
hang on im opening beer 9 ha ha got you beat 1 wild