they do it because if they don't you guys would freak out, pics would be posted and the saying would be "look at this port job they didn't even do the intake" and every one thats never ported a cylinder would say man you got ripped off thats dude sucks, so they grind all the paint off where no fuel or air goes, make the hole bigger to have more volume that usually means a slower velocity but I'll wait for Kennedy or Flotek to give concrete evidence, I ran very hi-performance 2 strokes over 80 hp on the 250 and the intake was not a huge deal, maybe with a blaster I'm wrong I'll wait for them