small block 360 cam selection

Oh, yeah, one more thing; 8/1 Scr was too low even with the stock 2bbl cam. and putting the 268 in the 8/1 engines with 3.23 gears, IDK who dreamed that up. I'm guessing the advertising department had a hand in that. Anyway, that's why the 340 got the rep. and the 360 got the rap.
GeeWhiz, my LawnBoy 2-stroke lawnmower has 7/1Scr, and won't cut anything past 3 day growth. Then I have to roll out the big boy Briggs OHV. I love that old LB. It's quiet, lightweight, my wife finds it easy to push and vibration free, if you get my meaning. But the head is integral with the cylinder, so can't mill it, and the only piston available is the stock one. So.......7/1 it will stay.
But when you consider that a snotty cam in the 8/1 360 will need a TC and probably gears, then for less money you can pop the Scr up to whatever you need, and probably still use the 2600 and 3.55s........ maybe even with whatever cam is in it; which is sure to have more low-rpm torque than anything you put into it.
To whit; a 2800TC in a stock long-block smoggerteen-4bbl, with an A998 and 4.30s, was a big-ol' bag of fun, in my 3650 Barracuda; me in it. Was it fast?
Fast compared to what?
Sure it was faster than the 2bbl same engine with a 904 and 2.76s, you bet it was. But the stocker was insanely boring, compared to the A998/4.30s, which was insanely amusing.First gear was all done by 5000=32mph. Second by 58, Third by 89mph. It cruised at 50=2670 @ zero-slip. With 4.30s you'd never have thought that you were driving a 3650 pound tank(me in it). Gears are the great equalizer.
Need I mention passing-gear? ! lol; there was none, cuz top of second was 58 mph, and a smoggerteen at 5000 with the factory cam was done a long, long, time ago.