360 questions

dgc333: Halifax Wall-Mart!? Man am I ever out of it! If I find myself over by 106/58 on a Friday, I'll have a look-see, thanks.

RumbleFish: Thank you for posting, that is very good information. I completely forgot about the internal/external balancing issues. I was always under the impression that "truck 360s" were tuned to run at lower RPMs and made poor muscle car engines. Thank you for the correction. That is one of the things I like about this place, I learn something new every day! That would also help to explain, I suspect, why you can by 360 crates but not 340s. I do have a question, then. I was always told that the early 340’s had an edge on account of their forged cranks which allowed them to wind-up over 7k RPM. Is that still an important factor versus their new 360 cousins or does the newer tech with the greater displacement more than make up for that? I greatly value your input. Aint' this stuff fun?

-LY