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

318willrun said
I thought an intelligent post from the other side would be......

Here are a few 340's for sale locally to me on CL, and they are 500 for a good short block.

Then I'd add A, B, C, and D with the remainder of my 2500 hundred and that would cover all gaskets, heads, cam, intake and carb.

I think this build would be a better performer than the 3k into the 318, still making the 340 the engine of choice for performance between the 2 engines even on a 3k budget.

the point to my first post was, one car built on a tight budget believe it was about 600 bucks of summit receipts (early 90s) came with the well thought out 318 vs the duster that spent 28 years (at the time early 90s) drag strip only with all the goody's when i got it was and how close i felt thay were! didnt mean to set ol wize one off on a tarrent!!