Brainstorming Ideas for 400-450 hp 360 Build

PRH said
If I’m building a new street motor to run on pump gas, I’m not going to “chose” to not build a motor with decent quench.

If I have a pile of stuff sitting on the shelf I wanna use up, then it is what it is.

I agree. You can get quench with the early heads, you just have to have a machinist who understands the piston CAN (and SHOULD) come out of the deck, or you are the machinist and you do it yourself.