360 Engines were brought on right at the beginning of the "no smog" ERA. That is the reason people of our age group viewed them differently. We just enjoyed "our" era of all performance engines to the exact opposite approach with the 360. The reality of it is if you get rid off all that crap that was downsized or added to de smog engines of that era you have a small block Mopar with a larger displacement. You would really have to have been a teenager or maybe in your early 20's to remember how disappointing it was that these engines were intentionally having their horsepower reduced by restricting what actually lied beneath all that crap. A bigger small block. Later that stigma went away when people got over it and threw all that added crap in the circle file. If you lived during that time like Volaredon, thousands of others and I did you would remember the history of how all this came about and was viewed at the time.