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Why use a flow bench for cylinder head porting? Isn a bigger port always better?

April 26, 2017bench Bigger cylinder flow Head port porting

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Why use a flow bench for cylinder head porting? Isn a bigger port always better?

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Generally speaking, you want to try to improve volumetric flow while keeping the port size as small as possible. This should give you the best overall performance over a wide range of RPM. This is especially important for street, road racing, off roading or tractor pulling engines.