I think there are alot of things that factor in that havent even been touched here. Looking back through my bracket builds one of my best stock stroke iron headed simple 360-s dynoed over 450hp and had times that reflected it with a 165 cranking and still needed a little octane boost with pump premium.

A 450hp iron headed 360 that would pull hard as hell from 1800 to 6000 is no slouch build weather at 165 cranking or 200 cranking. With the parts used on that build I dont think the combo could of took more cranking.

Unless one is way out on the cam choice I dont put alot of thought in CC, just what works and makes power for that pile of parts being used.

I live at 4k feet, my builds would not be even close for a sea level build with the same expectations or if I lived at 6500 ft.