Spoilsport! LOL The 273 is what it is. A small engine that runs good if you have all the elements correct but still not as good as the bigger engines of the same family. They are fun. When I let mine go and the clutch pedal sticks to the floor and the tach bounces off 6 and nothing is hurt it is cool. I don't rev and side step the clutch because I am the one that has to fix the damage but mine (they) run pretty good for a small cube engine just like the 283's and the 289's in the Chevy and Ford crowds. They ran the way they did and that's why the manufacturers went bigger. One step at at a time. Now we have 390 cube Hemi's that put out 700 horse. One step at a time! Nice chatting with you fishy.