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The Ford flathead V8 is stout, reliable and surprisingly potent, but this engine's overall performance potential is severely limited by terrible port designs, particularly on the intake side. Still, there's a simple trick you can do to optimize this V8's output and it costs next to nothing and can be done in just a few hours: port matching the intake manifold to the block.
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