Here's what I'm curious about......

If your bread and butter work coming in the door is gen II hemi stuff........ The stuff you've been working on for like 40 years......... And you're also very well known for your head porting services on those same gen II hemi heads you've been specializing in for 40 years........ One would have to assume they have done enough of those heads to know what's involved with porting a set of them......right?
Sooooo, it would seem to me as though the estimate on the porting costs could be a little closer to the final actual cost than $1000 difference.

Or, is that just me not grasping the situation correctly.......