Need some advice on choosing an engine

@273 How does the 360 give up cfm in breathing room?
By what is the bassis for the 360 giving up a few foot pounds of torque? In what form vs. what other block?

My point veiw is from if you run the same stroke in each of these engines then it just comes down to bore size. And in the case of the small blocks all 3 of them would be within 20 or so cid from each other and 360 would be the middle one in size. And same can be said of the 383/440/400 with the same stroke they will be all within 20 cid of each other. The differences in the final builds would be small from one another especially in a street engine.

But one difference when talking big blocks is deck height 383/400 better suited for 480 ish cid and smaller and 440 for larger than 480 or so cid.