Why do you hate to say it, my advice is pretty sound in the performance dept.
Also in regards to the homemade flow bench, what do you plan on using a Shopvac and maybe some water and vinyl tubing. You know there is a reason something like this cost good money
I would say the chances of someone reading a book and producing a good head that out flows stock and every port and is the same on every port is 1:10,000 if not more