after sleeping on this, maybe the question needs to be rephrased...
i think we can all agree any port alignment mismatch would obviously need to be corrected. in my case, the ports match up fine, just that the head port is larger than runners, which means that just matching them, at the point of gasket may be useless?? I assume in this case the entire runners all the way to the plenum would need to be matched - do people do that?? is that what porting the intake means?