Smallblock efficiency or How to have your cake and eat it too

I haven't read past the first page , I intend to ,don't get me wrong, but I stopped and thought right away after reading the the first post back too and I would always tell people how important running in in or near the middle of the cam Power Band. People would laugh and say "oh yeah ? okay well my power bands 3000-7000... so I'll go down the freeway at 4500..huh... yeah right" ...but thing is...you get worse milage under the cam range. You want to get as much of your low speed driving into the cam range as possible. It runs dirty if you dont and the gas is going out the tail pipe.
I still have the five pages to read and in fact earlier I was wondering where this thread went cuz I only saw the first post when he first put it up.... but basically when we spend all our time on the site talk and a heck of a lot about making power and doing it expensive or cheaper ,his way, my way, or their way ...we don't really dive into the other end of the pool, where we started from. I think about all the the 70-71 dusters that were ordered up with 4 wheel drum .. on purpose. They drag less and you went faster that way.. that works for milage too...anyways, i gotta read all this to see IF there is anything new i havent already known about. Cracking beer now...

I agree with this. When I bought my Ram 1500 I could not find any ordered with 3.91s..( Or sure grip ..or the big tank. A whopping 350$ in options !)
My truck lugs at anything below 75 mph with 3.55s..
Hemis are not efficient at low rpms.