Torque = Driveability ? (Engine Masters LSA shootout)

I came across this old build and found the results interesting and somewhat fits with this discussion, I'm not knocking the build it's a good little engine for what it is and like everyone said in the comments it would scoot very well in a A Body, It's a mild 360 with mildly reworked 318 heads and even a stock 318 cam in one test. Seen it said many times here that should make a torquey 360 which it really don't 350-369 lbs-ft ain't huge numbers for a 360 even at 2500 rpm and even a decent 318 should be capable of similar output (torque & rpms) and even better.

Why I think fits this convo everyone would say this 360 would be very streetable but quite a few would say a 318 with this exact same curve would be a less desirable street engine and some would say a turd.

IQ52 said
So, If you take a '74 360 short block and put 675 318 heads on it that have 1.88/160 360 valves, do some throat work to the heads (184 cfm @ .400" lift), use an Edelbrock Performer 318-360 dual plane intake, a Holley 1850-5 4160 carburetor, Comp 260H cam and stock 340 valve springs, $130 set of Summit headers, slap that puppy on the dyno, break it in and with no tuning, you could end up with something like this.

RPM.............TQ/HP

2500...........355/169
2600...........349/173
2700...........349/179
2800...........351/187
2900...........363/201
3000...........366/209
3100...........367/217
3200...........362/220
3300...........361/227
3400...........361/233
3500...........363/242
3600...........362/247
3700...........359/253
3800...........362/262
3900...........361/268
4000...........360/274
4100...........353/276
4200...........346/277
4300...........343/281
4400...........339/284
4500...........332/285
4600...........334/293
4700...........327/293
4800...........325/297
4900...........316/295
5000...........304/290
5100...........296/288
5200...........290/287

Not setting the world on fire, but interesting.
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IQ52 said
The head flows.

......These 675 heads...............stock 596 360 heads

Lift..........IN/EX.............................IN/EX

.100........74/59.............................57/49
.200.......128/119..........................112/88
.300.......173/150..........................168/109
.400.......184/170..........................194/136
.500.......189/182..........................192/142
.600.......191/189..........................196/144

So, the cams and no other changes.

260H cam 260/260 adv. .440/.440......stock 318 cam, 240/248 adv, .374/.399 lift

RPM.........TQ/HP.............................TQ/HP

2500.......362/172..........................353/168
2700.......354/182..........................351/180
2900.......362/200..........................358/198
3100.......369/218..........................355/209
3300.......369/232..........................357/225
3500.......366/244..........................354/236
3700.......366/258..........................345/243
3900.......366/272..........................343/255
4100.......364/284..........................331/258
4300.......351/287..........................312/256
4500.......341/292..........................303/259
4700.......341/305..........................294/263
4900.......326/304..........................277/258
5100.......304/295..........................260/252
5200.......299/296..........................254/252

Both cams made peak torque and peak horsepower at the same rpm. Both of them, when they got into their power range, just held on and kept going.
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