small block cyl head question

The first swirl heads were the "X" and "J" heads. that's why they are so great. Larry Shepard wrote about how they accidentally stumbled on it while they were flow testing. The modern swirl heads were a direct evolved design from the early heads. If you can get or have one of the earlier MP engine manuals, that's where it's included. I agree that the magnum heads suck big hairy sweaty dirty balls. They don't flow worth crap without port work, the rocker bolts cannot take a lot of cam and valve spring pressure without snappin off. I know people run them, but I promise you, you can take an old X or J and run around the magnums all day long. Chrysler took a step back in time with the magnums as far as I'm concerned. Loosin the shaft mounted rockers was stupid. those are just strong as all hell even in stock form.

yep, theres swirl happening in those ld heads, people think it's just the mag/later stuff where yes the focus is more on swirl but less on flow and potential=mag head are done beyond 250cfm, even hughes engines will tell you that.
chrysler wanted to save money=mag'ems/cracknums or whatever you wanna call them.lol

wet flowing heads is where you'll find flow distribution characteristics , then the hassle of getting it spread out, and possibly losing flow in the process.

I've got 190's by .300 -240's cfm by .400 lift -270's by .500- and 280's by .530

Heck as long as I have hands to port...I'll run the old stuff or some rhs heads

hell...you can get close to or about [email protected] with 675 318 heads, hughes even advertises it....keep in mind inflated numbers or happy benches..but hell even 10 less than that is impressive.