Intake Runner Length

[ECMnut at aol.com]

This is not making sense.  The "corkscrew" ports on the intake side of
my Syclone's votec heads are generally considered to be bad.
The faster guys use the earlier 229 (regular intake port),
or the bowtie heads, which don't use that vortec crap..
 It seems to be good at making low to midrange torque
with surprisingly little spark advance, but useless for
big flow or high RPM...  any thought would be appreciated.
MNike V 

>Exactly right!  We have been playing around with different porting schemes
>and found that you don't want the air to tumble in around the valve,
>instead, if you can make it swirl in (Vortec's idea?) you can get a lot more
>in.  "Some" drag-racers claim that you want the swirl to go ccw also. (Why,
>and for what purpose? I can't imagine).  We haven't got to playing with