Is building a stroked 318 better than a stroked 340/360?
Bleeding edge racing engines (pro stock, F1, NASCAR, etc)
Don't think you got to go that far, bet any local circle track Chev that's doing well is cheating with 6" rods. But yes we live in a world with abundant of cheap inefficient power so for average dude it's fine don't mean his engine wouldn't be better if the engine was more finely tune, stroke, rod, bore, ports, cam etc..
But couldn't there be a reason people seem to gravitate more to stroking a 400/440 to a 451/470/500 over 528-543 even though kits are same price?
Even though I agree the average guy build doesn't need to worry about it, but we live in a dodge world so if you build any non stroker /6 (except the 225), A, LA, B, RB, 170-440 + 451/470 you got good bore/stroke/rod ratios you got to go out of your way to build a poor one.