With advice like that I am certain they are not your friends. I would consider getting new friends say like CABBURG!!!

No seriously!!

OK seriously! I would do exactly as CABBURG said. I have stroked two small blocks they run like big blocks, my brother stroked a 440 to 520 cubes for a 4X4 Ram Charger it runs phenomenal. The cubes just make torque and that's what sets you in the seat and holds you there or molests the street leaving your rubber DNA.