Beehive valvesprings on all roller 408 smallblock

mid teens around town, high teens on the highway averaging 75mph. this is rare - I can't keep my foot out of it most of the time.

My highway mileage suffers because it's a higher stall converter than it should have for a 2.76 gear. It's in drydock right now for an overdrive and 3.23s.

It's real well behaved and loves to lug. I need to turn down the advance and lean it out to get any idle lope at all.

1rst gear is a silly joke on 275 all seasons. Throttle response is instantaneous. If we mash it at the same time from a highway roll, I can hang with a few local turbo or giant cam/giant port NA cars that are breaking into 11s.

The extremely fast ramps on this cam make it act bigger than it's specs imply. I also credit Dave Hughes' valve job for a lot of flow.

Sounds good. I'm just about ready to install my new 408 that I built pretty mild. Also going to swap in some taller gears eventually but to see what difference they make I'm going to run it with the 3.55's and check it first. Hoping it does decent on fuel. I'm familiar with Hughes cams quick ramps. Only live about 100 miles from them so I've been there.