Intake Velocity Speed of 565 CID w/850 Holley?

It's self explanatory. CFM= cubic feet per minute. If an engine moves 800 CFM of air, there's your air air speed. 800 cubic feet per minute.


CFM has zero to do with speed. I can have a port that flows 300 CFM with an average speed of 280 feet per second and another port that flows 300 CFM with an average speed of 320 feet per second.

In that same port you can have 10 different velocities. So CFM is not air speed.