Back in the early 80's I had a 340 4 speed 69 Dart with W2's and 4.30 gears and that was a nice little Street Sweeper....I would routinely hit 7600-7800 with it and I'm sure she saw north of 8 more than a few times. Ran great and big blocks ran the other way from it. Never tore it down but when I sold it 3 guys were fighting over it...miss that car a bunch.
My Rocky has a 70 model 340 block and I twist it about 7200