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Nice pulls. I assume the 545 reference is the cid? Lots-o- power and torque there!

Just a thought for you to check into: I think you may be blowing the torque converter away with the big engine. The reason I say that is that I have a 540 cid engine in mine and pulled 540 hp and 780 ft-lb torque (at the rollers) and I thought the 780 torque at the tires was more than I expected. After a while, I had shelled out the torque converter to the point that it 'locked-up' at 5200 rpm (originally was supposed to lock-up at 3000 rpm). I had a special torque converter made and it locks-up at 2600 rpm now. Haven't had the car back on the rollers, but I think the dyno pulls were 'flashing' the converter and allowing the engine to rev higher than the rollers thought (based on the gearing). This artificially elevated the torque at lower rpms. Anyhow, watch where your rpms flash to when you stand on it and see if you are blowing through the converter... And be careful. That much power can be a handful in these cars!