My home inspection of Speedmaster heads

What’s happening is....... for a ported head with a 2.02 valve at those lifts........ they kinda suck.

From a flow standpoint, the valve job sucks, and the throat is too big.
There is essentially no top or bottom angle....... so there isn’t a properly shaped transition from the bowl out around the valve and past the seat, so the port can’t move any air until you get the valve way off the seat and out of the way.

For the typical street/strip guy........ running these ootb isn’t going to be the magic you were hoping for.

They have potential...... as seen by the .600+ flow numbers.
But they’re not anything special ootb.

That's the issue with all those heads in seen. The throat is too dam big for the valve size and valve job.

The options are use a bigger valve and keep the 45 or use the 2.02 and use a 50 degree valve job.

If I can fit the 50 degree seat on the valve face that's what I do.