416" on the dyno

rumblefish360 said
It’s amazing how many people miss this about a drag car or even a serious street strip machine. Then they cry and complain about a loss of torque with a big cam and crap idle.

The best thing I found for low end street torque are things I have spoken about and become largely ignored and balked about but seemed of the knowledge won’t do it and just continue to cry about.

I’m surprised that you, yourself ask this question as one of the more knowledgeable people here. You already know about the balance of a build in an engine couple with the drive train plus the size and weight of the car and its suspension mods that may be needed.

I get all that. All I care about is how it runs between 5k and 6600 or so.
At lower rpm’s on the street I don’t really care because it makes plenty enough power to putt around because I keep my foot out of it on the street except for an occasional blip to clean it up.
Plugs last me a couple seasons, and I am fine with it idling at 1200 or so, keeps those solid lifters spinning, keeps the one wire alt excited so it’s putting out.
So my needs and expectations are probably different than most.
Meanwhile, I can tool around at 2800-3200 rpm cruising without issue.