Missed on this combo?

Ironmike, it's too bad you don't have a flow bench close buy, so you could do some experimenting. as in mud up the bowl so the it angle to left of center on the guide and then another one the angles the bowl to the right of center of the guide. see which one, not only flows better, BUT Sound better.
Remember, as you fill in the Bowl area, as u fill the back area of the bowl you are also shrinking the CSA(cross sectional area) of the SS. usually the smallest part of the port is SS area. They may have dug out the bowl just to slow down the air speed to get it over the chitty SS.
That hand drawing really show what is going on.