273 or NOT 273?

Talking to my builder this afternoon. He will let me know if I'm wasting my time or going to be that unique guy showing up at the cruise night. (with empty pockets)
It's all up to you. So far here you have 6 pages of comments and opinions but the bottom line, it's your decision in the end. Like I mentioned before, if you do build a screamin' 273, document it and get it dynoed' if you can. Quite a few here have built them but no one (including myself) has had one on the dyno and knows how much power they make.