My home inspection of Speedmaster heads

12many said
Up in the intake runners, the straight wall, the pillar protrusion for the head stud, as cast it protrudes about a 1/4" +/-

TurboGLH said
Still there, my MK-1 eyeball says .150.

Got to have a boss for the bolts. LOL the original heads were designed for production and not for performance. Kind of like the exhaust bolts threaded into water jackets. What were they thinking? You can cast a boss in there but at a cost and complexity.