340 or 408?
Another thread gone to ****. A little humility goes a long way.
Lots of guys get butt hurt real easy. Some here worse than others.
However, the original question about stock stroke vs stroker: Like everything here, people have their preferences and opinions, which is cool. But 99% of the time, you take an engine combination---any engine combination, and change nothing but make the displacement larger, that combo will make more torque and power, pretty much everywhere.
Now, you would think guys would universally like a more powerful engine. But it turns out they don't. Again.... that's cool. Some guys prefer the knowledge of a stock stroke over having more power.
I know if it was me....if I went for a ride in a hotrod, and it was a nice fast 9-10s street strip deal. If you told me that was a strock stroke I'd be like "awesome!" The truth is, there's no way I'd know the difference if your car has a stock stroke, was a 422 stroker, or a 318. If it was running 9s that's all that matters because it's freaking fast.