Inputs on a home built 318 for red light to red light fun

Dartswinger70 said
I haven't played around with a Chevy in years, I figure Mopar well the 340 anyway, had the open chamber, and they used the piston dome to change CR. Actually pretty convenient I think. Mopar engineers were some of the best IMO. Right now I have an E6 headed Ford Mustang GT engine that I want to put E7s on but I hear tell with no valve reliefs in the 86 Piston that that is a no, no. However some say it can be done. Thing is i have the parts LOL! but the Fox body runs pretty dern good I hate to mess with it too much, but I may just start taking it down the engine needs a reseal of gaskets anyway. Throw on th eE& heads with the 87 and up intalke and voila upgrade done for an extra 30 HP so they say...

Convenient maybe, but not conducive to quench. Every single gen1 small block chevy head made is a quench head. All of um. Open or closed chamber. Now, they all didn't take advantage of that, but they all were. Mopar on the other hand didn't do that. I would love to have seen a 340 with zero deck flat tops and some form of a quench head. Yes, they used positive deck height on the early ones to try, but it's not the same at all.