I don't care what you buy, and I don't care what people's responses are to the polls. I'd like to see a 302 SBF make 700 naturally aspirated hp, but you know what....that an't gonna happen either.
Since you can't remember, you singled me out when you said, "Brent, being a premier motor builder - respected far and wide on this forum, can your 427w or 427 FE performance motors handle 3,000 RPM WOT pulls reliably?" I'm sorry, but since my name was at the first of that sentence, doesn't that mean you were specifically talking to me? That's usually the semantics of a complete sentence.
I'm sure you're a bright young man, since your profile says you are an aerospace engineer. However, your responses show you have little engine experience, so we'll just leave it at that. You're more than welcome to start your dyno pull as low as you want.
I will say this, you can still measure your precious flat torque curve and start at something besides 2500 rpm.
As an added bonus, I did Google "427 CID dyno charts" and the images that came up were:
1. One of Barry's 482 FE's, where he started the pull at 3500 and still showed a blessed flat torque curve.
2. One of Barry's 431 FE's, where he started the pull at 3500...
3. Some image entitled "APE 408 Engine Dyno" that started at 3500...
The rest were EFI engines where the computer controls ignition timing and shoots a perfect mixture of A/F into each runner.
I'm done with this argument...