compression or flow?

MP template ported should equal 300cfm up top but as said above by 33 IMP, flow test them. The reason being (from where I sit) is the head may not flow as much as the aluminum head and if your not lifting the valve up very high, then your not taking advantage of the cylinder heads air flow capability.

With the lift you mentioned above on the camshaft, that’s not a lot and the W2 loves a high lifting valve and even better if it hangs open there for a bit. Search YouTube for https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=charlie+servidio
And scroll down some and find him (and I) flow testing my W2 heads.
Here is a W5 flow test where you can see stock vs ported W5 heads which are basically a square port aluminum version of the W2. They had very similar flow curves.




Excellent


Excellent




Lift wise, get as much as possible with the W series head. Check every cam grinder you can find. Howard’s, Schneider cams, Bullet are a few of the smaller companies that are also very very good to check out.


The W2 and W5 share a few parts, but a W5 is nowhere close to a square port W5. I own both. Exhaust ports and exhaust bolt patterns are different, intake port floor is raised and ports are rectangle. Very different heads that share a few parts.

That being said if OP has a ported set of W2's and all the parts I would run them everyday before I bolted eddies on.