Today, dollar for dollar, is the 318 faster than the 340 ???
That's why you can build a Chevy engine for less than half of any Mopar engine.
Johnny Dart. That looks like my 273 !
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A Chevy is only cheaper using junkyard parts. I can run 273 rockers and the Chevy is stuck with junk **** stud mounted rockers. Junk, OE style off the shelf pistons may be cheaper for a Chevy, but when you get into pistons with a 1/16 ring pack the price is the same. Cams...same cost.
The difference is in blocks and heads. Even then, if you get a Dart block that isn’t just an OE replacement block, it costs the same money as a Ritter block. The Chevy guy pays the money with a smile, while the Chrysler guys ***** and moan and snivel.
Heads are the same. A Chevy guy will buy shaft rockers and anything else it takes to get the best head they can afford, and the Chrysler guys snivel, piss and moan about buying offset intake rockers.
There isn’t a conventional 23 degree SBC head that will make power with a W2 head. But again, the sniveling continues and the Chrysler guys end up with nothing. There shouldn’t be a single Stroker built without a W2 head or better. But it is what it is.
And that’s the rub. Chrysler guys bring this on themselves.