David Vizard, Uncle Tony's garage, Unity motorsport. Mission impossible Dodge 302 Head porting

kdeboy said

Yep. If only Mopar had based the updated small blocks around the W2 head instead of coming up with a whole new design (Magnum). Oh, and kept the main journal size of the 360 at 2.5"...

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That would have been nice for us hot-rodders here 20 years later but even before the Magnum came out the only vehicles getting V-8s were trucks and SUVs. Not much benefit to having a big-port head on an engine that will rarely see over 4000 RPM and needs stump-pulling torque for doing truck things.

Yeah the 5.7L Hemi is put in trucks and they have giant head ports but those engines don't pull down low like a 5.9L Magnum does.