I did a dry fit of the blue thunder on the very same iron heads and iron block.
It now becomes pretty obvious that the large valley end gaps are a result of something different with the CHI aluminum heads
Tomorrow I will take a iron head to the shop and compare it to the CHI head.
Looks like the CHI representative who replied to my email doesn’t really know what their engineers have done with their design.
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