I got the 308 completed in Oct. of last year. Have been driving it ever since. It is a complete rebuild of a stock engine. Had to go 40 over on the bore to clean up cylinders. New pistons and a complete valve train replacement. Had the rotating assembly balanced. We used the Clifford 4 bl. intake with Clifford headers. Put a EB 500 on it. It runs great. It has torque at the low end. The hp rating on these engines are not impressive, it the torque. My son and I worked on it most of last summer. He put the engine in his 49 coupe. He had to do some tweeking on the carb. and the engine is very responsive when accelerating. He is in the process of building one of those stroker 308. It is going to have all those good parts in it. He has posted pictures of the rebuild over on Ol Skool Roz board. He goes by Hudsonator. Check out his gallary pics.There are guys out there that still race the 308 and they are impressive.