Small block strokers

crackedback said
Daily driver?

IMO, you should stick with your initial range of 450hp. It's not hard to get with a stroked SB. It will run all day long without much issue. When you start making more power, things get finicky, especially when pushing the envelope. you can get where you want to go with a set of stock iron heads with a little work done to them.

You want a pretty nice build that runs great. Check this one out that Brian at IMM built. 408, ede heads, voodoo 268, air gap. The owner says it runs 7.70's at 91 in a 3500# Dart. I think they are a bit soft for et/MPH, bad converter, but the guy drives it all the time.

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=6780602

You could step up the cam to get some more rumble. Just whatever you are looking for. Want it to be a decent daily driver or a teeth rattling car. I have a teeth rattler in my Aspen and love driving the car, except for the fricken mopar 508 camshaft. I'd roll that car everyday except for the idle/manners that POS cam has. My Dart has a 528 mechanical and it's light years better to drive than that 508 "junk"stick. I tend to tolerate some pretty aggressive cams in a street car, not that one...

Don't get sucked into the dyno numbers, it's in the car that counts.

I'm hoping that 9 sec Duster I bought hasn't spoiled the thrill of driving a quick street car too much for me. I keep telling myself that 450 horses would be more than enough. But Mike at MRL sure made it sound as though that extra 100 HP would make me smile.

Throughout the years that I've built cars I rarely saw more than modest performance gains whenever I would swap cams, intakes, carbs, or whatever. Prior to the Duster the quickest thing I'd ever owned was my first car. A 383/727 '70 Roadrunner that ran low 13s. In my teens, it seemed pretty fast. But when I see what some of these new cars are supposed to be capable of, it makes me want to forget about the worry of going overboard.