273/4 -318 debate

pishta said

Thats my point exactly: "with all the commando stuff ( The intake, advance curve and springs... whats left?) and 2bbl pistons...260+HP at 5500" imagine all that motors commando stuff (and other parts) on a ~18% bigger 318 short block (like I had, night and day with the 318 block). Like I said on the other thread, there aint much a 273-4 can do that a 318 cant do better.

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I like that,
even an 8/1 318 with nothing but a TQ on a small-port intake,and free-flowing exhaust is surprisingly powerful in a lightweight-A. Even in my porky 2nd gen. with the 1st gen trans and 3.55s.
And I like to say the same thing about 360s vs 340s, in streeters. The extra torque a 360 makes, combo for combo, is never a PITA. If it was there would be no market for strokers.
But I gotta say this; I have sucked a lotta mpgs out out of 273s,especially in 7/8/9 Darts. That 273 is 4.47 liters. But it can run mpg numbers of engines down to nearly half it's size in non-injected more modern cars; what's up with that?lol.