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Make as much torque as possible in the 2500-5000 range, that is where the motor lives, even during a drag race. This becomes clear if you look at a time/ rpm graph of your motor during a drag race. Maximize area under the torque curve for the midrange. Also, if you shoot for peak HP, you need to spend gobs of money on a bottom end and valvetrain that will survive at such high RPM. Nothing beats displacement, even RPM. You can't have too much torque, and as long as the motor doesn't run out of steam by 5000 rpm, you will have the HP as well. I would rather have 460 lb/ft and 400 hp than 400 lb/ft and 460 hp.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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