Experts and Know-it-alls welcome..

What A/J is saying is that if your driving this car casually you will give up that seat of the pants exceleration for a raspy sounding exhaust note. It is good advice ! Many guys build an engine for a high horsepower number and then are disappointed in the prrformance because they dont drive aggressively . If you build the engine with tons of low end torque you will smile every time you shift ! If you build it for a nasty sound you will only be happy at idle or 4500 rpms. When was the last time you hit 4500 ? If you drive like that then build the engine accordingly . I drive my Barracuda every day and find in reality I seldom ever hit 3000 rpm unless cruising the freeway at 75. But I am running 2.76 gears right now because of freeway speeds around here... I have some 3.23s I need to finish setting up.