When I used to take my 27 roadster to carshows, the civilians would take a look at my relatively mild 350, with big zoomie headers and gobs of chrome and they always asked "how many horsepower is that thing?" I would look them right in the eye and say "500 Horsepower" and they would go away impressed as all Bejesus. Occasionally a real hotrodder would ask me the same question, and when I gave my "500 Horsepower" answer they would start to ask me "how can that be possible with a streetable small block Chev motor?"---Then I would look them right in the eye and give my other answer---"I lie a lot"----I got many mixed responses to that answer.