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Smog Bump: How much to grind?

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I am port-matching a set of D4 351W heads, and as long as I'm in there with a die grinder, can anyone tell me exactly how much of the air-injection feeder bump is safe to take off? Any photos?
 

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See http://www.diyporting.com/ for some help with your porting job.
 

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Thanks for the link! He says, among other things:

"Removing the thermactor boss did raise the high lift numbers about 1 -2 cfm, after porting, but then leveling the lateral roll near the exit roof, lowered them again a couple CFM."

This is for E7TE, which have a MUCH smaller "smog bumps". He cautions that on E7TE heads that the exhaust ports are very sensitive to small changes, and he got a lot of negative results on the exhaust side.

Very informative for these heads - he shows photos with the air injection boss completely removed, leveled off at the roof of the port. My question is, on a D4 head if I completely remove the bumps, will I run into any structural issues?
 

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Remove ALL of it.. yes this is a pix of the E7's cause those are the heads I do... but cut it all out and make a straight shot back into the bowl!! floe is on the top of the port!! cool??

Just me...................................

Thumper
 

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excellent looking E7 port thumper! It's no wonder your heads make the power they do!
 

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cool!!

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