318 stroker -> Mopar Performance A8 build guidance needed.

SOMMS said
Thanks for these questions 273:

I am looking to race low-key competitively - I want to throw down at our local track (Pacific Raceways)...but I am not quitting my day job or traveling more than a couple hundred miles. This is not an autocross rig - will be mixing it up on actual road course tracks with other cars. Haven't totally figured the class out yet - can't be 'vintage' because that requires all the stock running gear.

And again - I don't actually care that much about hp, as long as it reliably makes something north of 500 and is as light as possible. Hence the a8 questions.

S

This is a '72 E-body 'cuda?? Why are You foolin' with exotic SB stuff, when a stroker B engine w/good aftermarket heads will make plenty of oats, & there are Al-U-minimum blocks out there as well. A 512 will make 650 falling off a log & be twice as streetable. The stuff You want to run isn't going to be cost effective at all, and 50/50 is gonna be impossible on a street E-body w/o butchery.... but I don't know what You consider acceptable to do to it....