Diaphragm vs. Borg and Beck.............

No, you have an aversion to things you don't understand, and you don't seem to understand that technology has improved in the last 30 years. Newsflash, it has.

And recommending a sof-lok for a street car with a stock 273 is total lunacy. The car we're talking about will at best have a "warmed up 5.9". Pretty much anything off the shelf will be sufficient. Even the clutch and disk I'm running is good for 500hp and would be totally overkill for the OP. A good old regular McLeod diaphragm clutch with an organic disk will last 100k miles in the OP's car.

And the chances of it being driven 100k by me are slim. I've had the car 9 years now and noted to the wife on our last cruise, "huh, I've just turned 10k miles since i bought this car." At this rate it'd be 90 years to go 100k and i just don't see that happening! :)

Although, once I achieve my goal s of pro-touring type of set up, i plan on putting many more miles on her. And Im getting there......