Indy/rhs heads?

1wild,
I have a good question for you, if this set of heads flows over 250 and they show to flow 252 @ .500 but the low lift flows are weaker than a set of mildly ported irons, how are these heads going to produce more power? If the same money is spent as compared to the cost of these heads.

OK sure you can port these heads to flow, but at what lift and with cost in mind of the average guy, are they going to run a cam this size? Where the lift and flow are the greatest. For instance I did a set of heads and they are Eddy's and they flow @ .700 lift 296 cfm's, yep there great heads but if the cam being used is a .630 lift and the heads flow 270 @ .600 what good is the .700 lift value. Further more if the heads only flow 250-260 @ .500 lift then the heads that are posted by Hughes are just as good without porting. The problem I see is the fact that the heads don't flow as much under the curve as the iron heads from the factory with mild port work and at the same cost. Needless to say that the port runners are smaller and will flow as much or more with a smaller intake valve and have more velocity. Which creates more TQ and HP thats useable. At a much lower lift.

If you have ported as many sets of heads as I have then you would know that the low lifts from .200/.400 lifts is where most people run there camshafts. So with this being said the .500 or .600 lifts are very immaterial as your only at this lift for a very short time and the lower lifts #'s are or should be much, much more important.

So now these heads flow 177 @ .300 but a set that has minor porting done flows 207 @ .300 with a smaller intake valve, which one do you think that a person would be more likely to buy? With the same money invested?