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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 3301720" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>The video I put in they took a 351W and turned it into a cleavor, basically used a cleveland style head.  Huge torque and HP.  I think they settled on around 500ft lbs of torque at 3900 rpm and around 468 HP.  They did bore it and went to 10:1 compression but that is still a huge amount of torque down low.  For a street vehicle to launch off the line and pull hard the torque is the number to look for as low as possible.  To put it simply, Torque lets you work but Horsepower makes the work go fast.  So unless you want to turn the spedo fast and get tickets look at the torque number not the horsepower.</p></blockquote><p></p>