Another 318 set up

Dan the man said

If torque doesn't doesn't move the car then what does? Almost every performance book says that torque is important for the street as torque gets the car moving and horsepower keeps it there. What size carb and valve's would you go with? I'm probably missing something here but when I looked up cam and converter they recommended nothing more than 2800 for the cam duration at 0.050 that I listed.

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Hp is what moves your car and hp is made from torque and rpm, in a street car rpm is somewhat fixed, peak hp tends to be in the 4500-5500 rpm range give or take so there's a little wiggle room for rpm but torque can very from like 150-700+ lbs-ft so torque will generally have more effect in a street engine.
Why people generally say torque is king, if rpm is fixed more torque equals more hp which is what moves your car.

Hp as a percentage of torque varies with rpm eg. 50% @ 2626 rpm, 100% @ 5252 rpm, 150% @ 7878 rpm, 200% @ 10,504 rpm, to make 400 hp at each of those rpms you'll need 800 lbs-ft @ 2626 rpm, 400 lbs-ft @ rpm, 267 lbs-ft @ 7878 rpm and 200 lbs-ft @ 10,504 rpm.