Reply to "4V port reduction"

I got the the Strip Dominator cheap. It has a welded repair to the end of the flange, well outside the intake port area. It doesn't appear as if it will affect it's ability to seal properly. The carb flange has been milled flat like a Blue Thunder two plane Pantera model.

I was hoping to use it to replace the vacuum secondary 650 Speed Demon and Blue Thunder two plane on the 4V iron heads in the car now.

The question came to mind while talking to the Barry Grant tech guys about a mechanical secondary carb for the Strip Dominator.

The advice I got was that my cam (Crane "Hi Intensity" hydraulic with a duration of 224 @ .050) wouldn't be able to do much with the Strip Dominator because of low velocity in the large plenum and ports.

So, since play $ are scarcer these days I wondered if that could be practically (cheaply) remedied.

BTW, The heads already have the exhaust ports reduced by way of a flat metal piece with bent "tongues" that poke into the ports. The rest of the system are Hall 4 into 1's with stock Ansa L pipes and mufflers.

On the exhaust side my plan was to have a local header shop fab a larger collector for the Hall headers and 2.25" or 2.5" pipes into new aftermarket mufflers.

Would anyone like to weigh in on that idea?