At my age HP no longer impresses, especially now that every Tom, Dick and Harry is making a car with 500 HP or more. Hell, some of the new Euro cars are hitting 1000 HP. I do find torque numbers much more interesting.

My sbc has been on the dyno only because when I got the car, I was skeptical of the claims of the previous owner. The HP is actually higher then the claim, but not surprising with the addition of a better bump stick and the headers. HP is just a number used for bragging and little else. Besides it seems that everybody's got one higher so why bother.