sounds like a good motor..... if you really want to be tearing people up light to light then you can gear it to be a rocket at short distance, problem is that you're going to kill your gas mileage and top speed..... i just got sold my 54 packard that was beating everyone light to light had a caddy 500 in it, but if i went much further than the average light spacing i was dead... the trick to getting that beast to move was 5.56 gears in the rear..... my top speed was only 85mph before i was redlining though