I'm not so sure about that. IIRC, I put a comp 268he cam in my friends 71 340 demon, and it felt more torquey. We took it to the dragstrip and I ran 14.2 something in it. This was like 25 or 30 years ago, so memory is a little fuzzy. But it was pretty stock, no slicks, no headers, bench seat, column auto shift, rusting out tail light panel, LOL.