Cylinder Head Porting and Power Production

I don’t like to look at the flow numbers “in a vacuum”.
Saying you should make 2.06hp/cfm is just too arbitrary for me.
Take a Ford 351C for example.
Not too hard to take the stock big valve 4bbl heads and get them well into the 300+ cfm range.
Installed on a 10:1 basic street combo with a small cam, stock intake and small tube headers....... does not equate to a 2.06hp/cfm combo.

Arbitrary or not all I was trying to say was when I see 2.06hp/cfm from my flowbench to my dyno the engine seems to over achieve in real world use. The corollary is also true from what I have seen. Also any 351C I have done for the street turned out less than great. J.Rob