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

Dave_J said
My take on this is its just a HOBBY and not my bread and butter job.
If I were the one building 400 HP 318s as a living I'd be a bit more upset.

But as a hobby, its just Bench Racing Banter. I know my skill level and what I have done.

I will never build another Flat Tappet Slider cam engine. The cams now days are crap, the lifters are crap and the oil is not made to support them. Its all about Rollers now.

The Lunati Cam in my stroker 410 5.9 is a mild one and a lot of these fokes that posted on here would yell at me for wasting a set of Aluminum Eldy heads for ONLY 400 HP.... and 500 Ft/Lbs from 2700 thru 5600, flat curve to a peak of 525 Ft/bl....Hyd Roller cam, roller 1.6 rockers. 219 deg @ .050" intake, 237 @ 0.050" Ex. Lift with 1.6:1 rockers is 0.549" intake and 0.565" exhaust.

This would be a good 5.2 cam and heads to get close to 400 HP too. Heads were a 'Black Friday' sale at Mancini for 2 loaded heads $1250

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Yep, it’s a hobby. So what? Set up unrealistic budgets and end up with something that is not what it should be? That’s wasting money and time. And I figure you’re talking about hydraulic rollers and they aren’t the best thing ever. They have issues. And it comes back to budget. If you use the OP’s senseless budget you wouldn’t be able to afford the roller cam stuff and still be on budget. So would you save some money and do what you want, or live and die by a dumb budget and settle for something that is less than what you want? As I said many times the issue with this thread is the budget. It’s just silly. And it skews everything one way to make the OP feel better.