Trick Flow 440 heads, The Real Deal?

Ahhhh I was curious about the carb on the tf intake. that is just eye opening, you can be leaving a lot on the table by not having the correct intake. Im not an engine builder, but I just didn't expect all off the shelf intakes to be such a restriction to these heads.
What I think is really weird is the intake shootout that was done by frieburger a few years ago. It was bizzare how close the intakes were.

Porting the intake is usually worth 20 to 30 hp on a race type engine. Most guys don't get their intakes ported since it is expensive, but the cast intakes leave a lot of power on the table. For a retail customer Wilson would charge about $1400 to do the porting that they did on my M1 intake. Most bracket guys aren't going to spend that kind of money on the intake manifold.