I have to be honest. When I rebuilt my 340 and hooked it up to the exhaust it was loud. Loved it. When I drove it thru the dirt parking to pull it into the shop it shot me back into the seat. Liked that too. I'm anxious to get it on the road. I'm 67 now. I get nervous at 75-80 mph in my Rouge. I purchased a control arm thru a club member (oldmanmopar). Spent about an hour looking at finished and future projects. He's show & go to the bone. There were racing trophies has tall as me and he was featured on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine. The duster was a wheel standing car. When he spoke about engines it was like another language to me. I'm a body man but I also do full restorations. I could go into detail but the thing I was trying to say about money and horsepower was that lot a people give up their projects because they are waiting around for a bigger motor or a 70k restoration. I looked at a 69 Barracuda Convertible to buy. A friend of mine said the owner had it in his garage for about 8-9 years and wanted to sell it back then (I have plans of buying it). It was a pos torn apart carelessly. The owner told me he owned it for about 20 years. Went over the car with the owner. It was an original 318 car. He swapped the 318 for a 360. Asked him if he had all the parts for the conversion. He didn't know what I was talking about. In the next breath he told me he was going to buy a crate engine for it. He's about 45 yrs old, divorced and living with mom. He does odd jobs here and there. This car will never be done (by him anyway). He could have spent all that time the car was in the garage driving around enjoying the car if he left the original motor in it. It's not unusual to see DIY'S bail on finishing the car because they put them aside to buy things they really don't need or couldn't afford. Same with the guy who pulls an original good running 383 to put a used 440 in that had no documentation as to where it came from. He never got it to run & it just sat there (going on about 8 years). I give you motor heads credit I am amazed at the motors and engine compartments I see at the shows. I always liked when someone like an older family man stops and looks at your car and says to you know I had one of these when I first got married. Most likely it didn't have a Hell Cat Engine. Enjoy what you have. Cruising down the highway or the back roads seems more exciting to me than pulling wheel stands in the middle of town.