Building a slant for torque

It's not necessarily that I WANT high RPM horsepower.....I'm kinda boxed in using the pistons I have which means I have about a 10.5 compression ratio, which will require a fairly large cam to run on pump gas. Coupled with the 4.11 gears and the T5 transmission I plan to swap in, it should still have some good grunt down low! The engine I have now loses very little on the bottom end now, even with 3.23 gears. I theorize that it's the long stroke of the 225 that helps out there.

It's all give and take... you current build has more than stock, not as much as my 2106 naturally. The newer build pushes the peak of everything out 500 RPM and more so the model predicts a good 20 ft-lbs of torque loss in the new build over the old at 2000 and does not cross over to be more than the current until 3500. The gears will help for sure.