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Message:	I found this article at autospeed.com and thought you might be interested in reading it: 'Porting Gains' - Modifying a Falcon six-cylinder head. It's a thread that often comes up in discussion groups: is it worth porting modern heads? In general, the consensus re porting is these days often a 'no' - with some heads now CNC-machined from the factory and all heads very carefully engineered and nearly as carefully cast and machined, what's one aftermarket guy equipped with an air-grinder going to be able to do that's positive? But on the other side of the argument, in all race engines where the formula allows such work, porting of the cylinder head is a must-have if the car is to be a front-runner... You can read the article at: http://www.autospeed.com/A_109232/cms/article.html