There's absolutely NOTHING wrong with anything that 440'sRus sells...But if you want to make POWER there are other places to go.
That water pump housing that they sell...it's a water flow problem...That distributer that they sell is locked out...no centrifugal adv...and that flywheel is just too heavy...it's been kicking around the shop for a year and nobody's ever asked if they can have it...it's there for the taking.So it gets used as a door stop...I also have a purple cam that we stick in the front door jam to keep it open...
Your comment on alum flywheels and pulling away from the lights being a pain... IMHO is just a matter of the right tune and clutch.
340's with 25lbs taken out of the reciprocating Assembly mass the power band starts 750 rpm sooner ...
But there are just as many cons to small blocks and alum wheels as there are pros.If I built the engine and I'm tuning the engine for the customer I'll try my best to talk him into an alum wheel.I'll bring a couple of different cars around that have alum wheels in them and let him drive them .
If I tell a customer to do something and it doesn't perform exactly like I dicribed...He doesn't have to pay me...