Quick update, Thursday i contacted Big Dogs for a status update. They replied within a few hours telling me the lower is done and sent a pic of it ( it did look good and clean from the picture) and said my upper is fully ported and modified now going through all the body work which was followed by another picture of the runners and some welds they were cleaning up. Funny that back in December they were "working on cosmetics" though.... he then said this, word for word:
"Stage 3's on these manifolds is EXTREMLY DIFFICULT and the reason we will be raising our prices on stage 3's for now on! It takes time to get them right because if they ard not then the customer miss out"
i then asked for my lower to be sent so i can install my motor with no reply....