David Vizard - Which to prioritize - PORT FLOW or PORT VELOCITY?

What's the pressure in the chamber when the intake valve opens? Theoreticals are not realities.

Anytime you create conditions that invite reversion like bigger valves, bigger runners, bigger intake bigger carb and longer duration camshafts then you are not filling the cylinder no matter what theoretical air flow or velocity you measure on a steady airflow bench. Exhaust gases usually are innate but if you're making lots of CO during the burn that's a burnable gas that requires energy to burn again and that's diluting the next intake charge when it heads back towards the intake valve
That's nice little summary, but so what, excess reversion is only a problem if you got an excess, and the power lost would have to be high enough compared to any gains from the mods, there's compromises to be made everywhere.