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

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.

THIS ^^^^ 100%! I've said it many times --The 5.7 Hemi is a poor truck engine but a great pass car engine. That's why the 8spd trans is essential. I still wish Ma Mopar back in the mid 80's had designed the Daytona's/Lasers/Chargers to be a 5.2/5.9 RWD/Manual Tranny platform to compete with the Fox Body/Camaro stuff. J.Rob