building a 360, and newbie 360 questions!

450hp can be done pretty easily with 360, my uncle built a 360 he was in the high 400hp all he did was put the 508 purpleshaft cam and worked over a set of heads to put on it and he twisted a 8 1/4 axle out of the housing while racing on a dirt track. now that same motor is in his street car with a stock 727

Just a .508 cam and a set of worked over heads got high 400 h.p. i think he had a little bit more work into it then that...