Today, dollar for dollar, is the 318 faster than the 340 ???

318willrun said

Again.... TODAY !!! 6-26-21.... Let's say a good friend worked hard to save 3k to buy and build a motor for his Duster. Today is the day he buys the engine. 5.9 is NOT an option, neither the LS, neither a 440. He will decide today between the 1500 dollar 340 core complete minus carb, or a free 318 2bbl that ran good when pulled last month. What is your recommendation for the best ET between those two choices. Today, is the 318 the best choice vs 340 on a 3k or under buy and build for performance.

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I tell him to keep saving and find something else. 3k doesn’t build crapola today. At least nothing I’d want my name on.

Again, it’s buy once, cry once. I’ve got a buddy that is acting like a 16 year old pre-pubescent idiot. We sold him a running 318 and he had to change the intake manifold (it was complete carb to pan and RUNNING for 1k) and the cam, which turned into changing the heads.

And now he wants to put the engine in the car so he can hear it run! WTF??? Doing work to do work is STUPID.

I’d have never sold him the engine if I knew what he was going to do. He won’t ever be happy with it and he’s going to spend an assload of money buffing a turd.

That’s why I say buy once, cry once. I’m well past the days of cobbling **** together just because. And I don’t care what engine it is. 3k is not enough money to build something worth having in the end.

I don’t compromise very well, and that dollar limit is a compromise.