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

Holy smokes, I have not kept up with this thread for awhile. It turned out as most would have guessed. My only thought is, which one of you, when you were a young broke gearhead didn’t read everything you could to make whatever engine was already in your car the best it could be? To just toss it out and start over simply wasn’t realistic as you opened another bag of top ramen noodles and shivered because the heat was set on 58. Many of us were raised on 318s. We simply got the most we could out of them dreaming of a 440 some day. Now that we are old fat and have a spare dollar or two it makes perfect sense to drift away from the 318 but that was not the question posed by the OP. Dollar for dollar pound for pound running what ya got always wins when you just don’t have a lot of extra cash.