AFR MOPAR 340 HEAD TEST!

Oldiron440 said

Mopar made templates and there’s plenty of videos about unshrouding the valves, port matching etc.. There’s plenty of power to be gained just by cleaning up under the valves and port matching and using 2.02 valves. Maybe you’re a person who just can’t do it for whatever reason, drop the bucks those heads are for you but for me my background was building a car and bringing up my family comprised had to happen in-fact doing heads came from need because there wasn’t anything better. If you wanted to make power you had to build your own. I’ve never trashed a head but I’ve known people who have, I’ve been lucky to have been given advice and smart enough to listen.
But if a body and paint guy can build a 650 hp iron headed 440 and have it live for years I don’t know why you can’t work over a set of small block heads. Just start by unshrouding and port matching, no water involved.

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I'm not going to argue with you. Glad you can do your own work, so can I. I encourage everyone to do as much as they can for themselves. But I stand by my statement that most people in the hobby, cannot for whatever reason (skill, space, time, tools) port an iron OEM head with positive results that approach the performance level of one of these aluminum heads. Thus, having ready to go options off the shelf that provide a significant increase over stock iron heads, is a good thing. Doing a gasket match on the ports and knocking some burrs off isn't going to take an OEM iron head into the realm of an aftermarket Eddy/ProMaxx/AFR type aluminum head. Getting that kind of result from an iron head takes skills and tools that 90% of enthusiasts just don't have and these days finding a shop that can/will do a set of iron heads to that level will likely cost you the same as a set of Trick Flow 190's.