Long valves on W2's with .600 lift?

Yes, I watched the second test. He used a ring of clay around the intake port that was about 3/4” thick. No exhaust pipe was used.


Not sure what the the original porter used, if anything. What made me suspicious initially was when I went to pick up the heads, I asked about the flow sheet. He said “Oh yeah, almost forgot.” He then proceeded to whip out a notebook and began to write all the numbers down without looking at anything else. Now either he had a photographic memory or he was pulling numbers out his ***.
I did physically see he had a Superflow bench in the corner and it was lit up and looked operational.

Now what confuses me is during the second flow test, he had the lift cranked to .700 and was digging around in the port with these little dingle balls on a stick trying to figure out if the guy just hogged them out too far. The dingle ball didn’t make much difference but a couple times he put the tip of his thumb near the edge of the port window and the flow jumped to 305ish. What’s the deal with that?


LOL. That's why I say the flow numbers coming off the bench aren't nearly as important as what you learn by testing with the bench.

Could be several reasons why his thumb at the edge of the port made a difference. When you are at that point, you put the intake on a flow it. You'd be surprised what that will change.

Also, I don't get too excited about the port tipping over at .500 as you can put the intake manifold on and it probably won't do it. You can fix some of it.

The question is this...is 28 inches of water is the correct test pressure at all lifts????