318 Build? Help!

i've built a few 400hp 318's and they all had more cam than that. also they were just at 400 and straight up done at 6000ish

the graph shows most all of the power at 4K and more, with that big goofy torque dip and flat right in the meat of where you'd be cruising.

you could make the same torque with a smaller cam all day and be right in the wheelhouse of where the general operation for this type of vehicle would be.

also, i wouldn't buy a cam from those jokers based on the experiences of others.

3/4-ton pickup truck (heavy), full-time 4x4 and 727 trans, D44/D60 axles, aerodynamics of a refrigerator... lots of parasitics to work against by the time the power gets to the road. Agree 1000% the performance will be far better if the focus is on bottom-end and mid-range torque instead of a peak HP number.