Should I be feeling more power?

We have a local shop here that charges $150/hr with a two hour minimum. My friend took his recently rebuilt 440 Coronet there and the guy tuned it and ran it twelve times on the dyno. He found 56 rear wheel horsepower on a car that we thought ran pretty well. It was well worth the money spent.
Thats a good deal, around here dyno tuning starts at 500 per session...and that was a while ago