yea, but the beer barrel is only good in a stock truck that you use for towing. period.

beer barrel vs RPM and a carb? well, put it this way, a stock 360 in a truck made 250 hp. 345 ft lbs of torque. with just a swap to a carb intake like the RPM, and bolting on a set of headers, suddenly you have a 300 hp/375 ft lb crate motor.

my 318 was a stock 318 with a cam that had 220°/230° @ .050 just over .500" lift, on a 114 LSA. Intake was a 2bbl single plane, M1 EFI intake, and headers were edelbrock mid-length dakota headers with crappy bends, and smashed tubes to form the merges.

That 318 had enough torque to smoke the tires through first gear and into 2nd if you power shifted it, which really puts a damper on the argument that you need the beer barrel intake to make torque, or that your low RPM torque suffers when you ditch it. The 318 was knocking down 17 MPG overall too! (IN A 4,000 LB BRICK OF A TRUCK!)

my truck has a 360 now, same stock magnum heads, and a Hughes whiplash cam, 222/228° @ .050 .544 lift and 107LSA, and it's got even MORE torque off idle, and dyno'd at 285hp/325 tq at the rear wheels. The tighter LSA on this cam though is hurting my MPGs I feel. my MPGs are now about 14-15 overall.