'71 Duster 440 or 360? Pros and cons

If you could save every dime of advice you'd pay for the build. Here's my 10 cents worth. "You can't lose either way..."

I think most possible pro/con points have been made but I can think of one I haven't seen. A very real value of doing a small block besides the weight advantage is the easy ability to economically stroke them to big block displacement. I sure wish that option had been simple and cheap when I was most interested in killer performance 30 yrs ago.

What hasn't been pointed out is the same is now true of big blocks. For two grand in parts that 440 can be a 512 with the added benefit of such light bobweights it'll snap rev like a small block. Add another grand or two for aluminum high flow heads and you've got streetable torque and horsepower that only a full race or blown small block could touch.

If I was still aspiring to king of the street that's what I'd do :burnout: