Edelbrock 7576 Air Gap on 318

as for the airgap im probably the only one in the world that is not impressed by it, ports are way small compared to the gasketsize on a 340 and it may be a good performing intake but on my junk the holley stripdominator felt better and the old edelbrock tunnelram sure has alot more go.

That's odd that you say that because a few yrs. back I port matched a Air-gap to a set of 68 X heads and had to take very little meat out to match it the heads. Now the gaskets were a different story as they come in various port sizes. The Fel-Pro gaskets I bought at that time had port windows quite a bit bigger than the X heads. I wonder if you might have got one that had a casting issue? I have only had 2 and both were fine but I read that some had issues.