Streetmaster to Airgap

The O/SA record that was supposedly in the 11's is currently listed at 12.6x on the NHRA websites, so I'm not sure how accurate 11s is. That's also with a stock eliminator prepped car that bears exactly zero semblance to anything anyone drives on the street, other than the tires are rubber.

22hp is a decent difference for ONLY an intake swap on a stock motor. Keep the SM intake, and the engine would not respond to the rest of the mods they did in the same way - right?

Trying to say the intake isn't a big deal by looking at it in isolation is a joke.

Do the heads have to flow enough air to make the power? Or do stock eliminator cars defy the laws of physics?

That 22 hp difference was at 3000 rpm where the airflow demands are less. The joke is your inability to accept that it just didn't need all that airflow you thought it did.