I appreciate your advice, and will be placing an order from you once I decide if the extra 150 for studs and rockers is worth it. I just find it hard to believe that opening up the pushrod pinch to an actual rectangle and knocking off that huge protrusion of the exhaust seat won't create any "free power" so to speak. Maybe guys who are porting these successfully are keeping their secrets guarded. Nonetheless I trust you and trailbeast more than myself and am sure I would be happy with these in stock form, but like I said, I just can't leave well enough alone. I think I'll definitely waste some time smoothing out the exhaust side playing with some of the new bits and tools I got. Stay tuned