Better heads

BJR were those 318 magnums you referred too as "the biggest dogs you'd ever seen" in stock trucks with original computers, etc? Reason I ask is I had a 93 Dakota I bought new with a 318 mag and when I got it it ran adequate but wasn't all that impressive. I added short tube headers with dual exhaust and a Mopar perf. computer and nothing else. It was like a whole different truck. With a peg leg 3.55 rearend it ran a best of 14.46 @ 96 mph and 14.60 consistently spinning 10-20' out of the gate. I found it was the computer that really made the diff. Apparently they had the timing very conservative from the factory. I have throughout the yrs. known numerous guys with 70's LA 318 Dodge pickups, a few of which I helped tune for best perf. and none of them came anywhere close to the way mine ran. I'm not trying to make it sound like I had some sort of a race truck but rather stating that in comparison my 318 magnum with it's ports that you say are too big for a 318 would run circles around the older ones. I have also driven one other 318 magnum full size Ram (short bed , reg. cab. all stock) and it ran stronger than my Dak did when mine was stock. I know you know more than I do about heads and perf. in general but to say the 318 magnum is the doggiest 318's ever I can't agree with. JMHO