340 or 408?

Mean416 said
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.

Depends how you look at it, from a drag racing point of view your only concerned about stall to shift points there's no reason a 340 can't make as much and or more between those two points just gonna happen generally at higher rpms.

Yes the larger the engine is almost always gonna make more low end power, but smaller engines are generally gonna/should run more gear so at any given mph they are gonna be running at a higher rpm possibly making the similar hp.

Here's a 302 vs 327 vs 350 the 302 and 327 built identical the 350 has a different cam.

Now down low the power band are fairly spread out but with the right gearing eg.. The 327 makes the same power as the 350 but only around 200 rpms more at lower rpms so just with a little bit more gear the 327 match bottom end power plus got all those extra top end rpms. Which is more streetable ? probably the 350 and the main advantage for most it needs less gearing. Now the 302 needs 500-700 rpms down low which you ain't gonna get without crazy gearing but with more gearing it's going be closer in reality then on this graph.

Yes if you just run the standard 3.55 gears the 350 probably be best all around which to me is the main benefit of displacement not needing as much gears.