Poll on are you running Stock or Modified engines

About 20 years ago I swapped out the ESC and factory 2V on an '84 Fifth Avenue, replacing the parts with stock '73 340 distributor, ignition box, and Thermoquad on a crap Edelbrock Performer. It was a totally different car after that, even though it still had the complete OE exhaust system.
That's the good thing about low power V8 most got easy power gains waiting to be unlock, like the 318.