Speedmaster Small block porting tips and results Part 1

pittsburghracer said
Not necessarily. A Home porter could take the above info, do it, and have an idea where his head would measure up. The average person doesn’t look into a port and notice the common wall tilts in as it gets closer to the shortside, the floor tilts up as it gets closer, the roof tilts down as it gets closer. If I can help a guy see this and show him or her how to address it maybe guys won’t be afraid to try porting. Who knows they may get the bug like I did and build their own flowbench too. Porting is becoming a lost art and someone may be the next guy to design a cnc program.

I did home porting on my current heads with some guidance from my machine shop... It was the messiest nightmare I have never put myself through with this car LOL... Days of grinding in metal bits flying everywhere and all over my garage... With products like trick flow available now I can see why the art is being lost.. the stuff is already being built into the heads..
I'm a quick learner and I don't really understand a lot of that but the things that make sense.. like common wall sounds like the wall between two ports? I assume the floor is the bottom part and the ceiling is the top part if the head was theoretically on.. the short turn and the long turn are a little blurry... But if there was an arrow pointing to it on a picture I wouldn't have to be told twice...
after days and days of grinding in my heads I'm still not sure what I got out of it except for a very dirty garage a lot of dirty clothes and lung full of metal dust..
I was sure the first thing someone was going to say was it depended on what car and what do you use was and stuff like that for a side-by-side test....
I can assure you from the standpoint of the common Cheapskate hot rodder who paid $700 for these would really like to know what kind of bang for their Buck they're going to get.. and if that's their budget for heads what's going to make them by all this equipment and start experimenting...