Being "old school" is not for all. You have to be cool with running at a certain level. Good for street/strip and bracket racing. Which is me.
Knocking the "only 1/2" lift" is ok too. If you only run "old school" iron heads you know that the ports basically stall at over .500 (aka 1/2" lift). Yeah, we could debate that there's more "area under the curve" with more modern profiles and there's also the 1.6 ratio rockers to band-aid it too.
Whatever, it's bang for the buck. "old schoolers" know that the adjustable valvetrain opens a Pandora's box of additional spending.
Can you go faster any cheaper????? Probably not.
Can you run more consistent, or even faster, than a guy with more modern technology but not dialed in???? It certainly happens.
Here's my old school 69 Rr. It has sat there so long it's very embarrassing to mention it. BUT I finally started to get back to it in the last few months...........
http://www.moparts.org/moparts/picture/mopar03/moparty/img/DCP_0479.JPGI'll be running some old narrow front runner Ansen slots, the big 11.75" discs and a 6 Barrel hood.
