Jeff Patterson built me a nice mild 408 stroker (.484 lift) for my 68 Charger. It is the wifes car so it had to be street friendly. I run A/C, and Power Steering, a nice street friendly edelbrock 800 and it only has a 2.94 gear. I took it to the track once and got a 13.28 out of it. I think it would run a 12.90 if I worked at it. Starts up nice in the cold and doesn't have a rich exhaust smell. Drove it up to the Woodword Dream cruise from Ohio and at 70mph, it was at a reasonable rpm. Keep your engine and change the cam and a few other things and you will enjoy the torque.