sorry to bring up a dead thread, but i have an update. Ok, my friend who works on ford engine gave me advise, he agreed with almost all of you saying the porting job looked like ****, lots of scraps and not smooth at all! (emailed seller > ) he said though, that there was hope, if i took a long time hand polishing the ports till ther was a mirror finish and to get rid of the "dwells" in the intake runners. I did this last ngiht for a while on three of the 8 ports (takes for ever, something like 2 hours per port!) im not done polishing them yet, but he thought they were looking pretty good, what do you guys think???

polished:

polished with ruler to see reflection better:

unpolished:

 

i hate to burst your bubble man but you don't want a mirror like finish, a slightly textured finish will allow the fuel to stay atomized and suspended.

 

its not completely mirrored though, some scratches in there couldn't be removed. all the professional ones look mirrored

 

have you ever seen a set up close?

 

hmm, well, i have half of it polished and the bowl and what not cast still. Its better then was it was, with the larger physical bumps. The one you have looks like a very fine scratches.