[b454rat]

My old 84 had a stock rebuilt 454, 781 heads on it. Stock intake, Edelbrock 600 carb, headers off a Chevelle and some homemade exhaust with fake flows. Truck was a short box 4wd, 4-speed, 35" tires and 4.10 gears. I could start out in 2nd easily, pull any hill in 4th and accelerate if needed, but would still cruise down the highway at 70mph around 2500 or so RPMs.

And if it wasn't for a slow to shift tranny, the truck would be much faster than it was. No such thing as shifting an SM465 fast, but would make cars much smaller looking thru the rear view mirror. And rarily did it ever hit 5k RPM, didn't really need to.

Everybody has a small block, don't see alot of big blocks anymore. Big block have their own sound, and will walk away from a similarly built small block.