LA 318 advice

I did a intake test on a very mild 318. Factory '73 340 cast, Weiand Action Plus, Holley Street Dominator. All ran within 1 mph and 1.5 tenths of each other. The factory cast had the best mph & ET, even though it had the largest port mis-match to the 318 heads. 2nd was the Action Plus, even though lighter it ran 1 tenth behind the cast. Oddly enough, the Holley SD being a single plane actually gave the best 60 ft (barely), but the worst overall ET by 1.5 tenth and MPH was barely a click behind the others.

Bottom line is they all performed very close. Folks worrying about the mis-matched ports on a mild 318 are repeating what others posted or some other online gibberish without personally trying it.
THE HEADS.... and I'm not going to read through 8 pages of what's being argued here, so I don't know if this has been discussed. But we putting 340/360 heads cut .040 on a 318 has EVERY TIME made the car go faster. No, we didn't cut the intake too, never had to. IN fact, it fit better (bolt holes lined up better) after the heads were cut .040. In all truth, one of the common street mods that used to happen to 318's was slapping 340 heads/intake/and carb on it.