My 0-cents. On a mild single carb, shorty headers, daily driver build I'd use the 194 head in a heart beat. I might or might not open it up a bit around the 1.86 intakes. You know the head is a solid one. The small boost in compression will likely give you as much as you'd gain with the extra flow from the other head. They are not all race cars.
"I wonder if God created man because he was disappointed in the monkey?" Mark Twain
