If you go over Doc's list of things the Hpak likes you'll have to carefully pick your cam. The Comp Cam 264 would be wasted on an 11.5:1 motor...you're looking for something like the Engle cam (276). Some other considerations is the problem of long narrow runners on the intake, piston dwell time (at TDC and BDC) and how these will kill fuel distribution from a carb and how the carb can deal with what it 'perceives' from manifold vaccuum and load. I'm already done with 90% of my 'paperwork' phase of my long rod Hyperpak project and was able to dump a lot of 'headaches' by going MPFI....if I had another $1400 I'd add MPFI+NOS injection system...but I don't so I won't....
You'll have to get some real world measurements to see what your setup is going to do (i.e. get the calipers out). On my long rod, I see that by going 11:1 and doing a little piston modification I can take full advantage of the quench area in the chamber if everything is milled right, but it makes things a little tight for comfort on the valve to piston clearance. At that point it may really limit my cam lobe choices greatly.
With the Hpak intake you'll limit yourself to about 5500 rpm, and you'll need to make a 'choice' when selecting your components like cam choices (short duration, low lift, with Hpak = great torque and street manners...or high duration, high lift, great at 5500 rpm, may not idle too good on street, may get the same gas mileage as the guy with the stroked 360....).
Another item to ponder is gas availability as you approach 12:1 you may need to run some major octane to keep a set of flat tops from pinging in the open chamber (pending clearance, 'squish'/quench, and how open the chamber is. I chose 11:1 as a good 'middle ground', it's not 9.5:1 (which can still run 87 octane with some 'detuning'), but it's not 12:1 (how much for the barrel of 108?)....
If going Hpak, set the Desktop Dyno to "Tuned Port Injection", it's meant for fuel injected long runner intakes with smaller ports, 'open plenum' would be for the 'clifford shorty' (short runners, open plenum, wider ports).
Heck if going to get a bank loan for the lightened stroker crank, EFI kit, NOS kit, you might as well get a billet roller cam.... and go really 'BIG'....
-D.Idiot
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Somebody PLEASE sneak into Doug's garage some night and put a decent carb on that monster!!!! 
