Well, as he said, it's a race car and he also said he didn't care about driveabilty, these 2 factors take your comment of "BUT he'll have to run race gas" and "getting the heads to flow the numbers " out of the argument and make them null and void.
Your "IMO" is just that and doesn't hold water. Porting the heads for either engine will require a lot of work. Pocket porting a head for a stroker is one cost, fully porting a head for a little drag engine is cheaper than getting a stroker crank and pocket porting heads.
While a stroker engine will work less, produce less stress on the engine and a direction I would rather go, this stroker option was not entertained earlier. The OP's thread was on a 318. Are you helping or not? Are you just gonna throw in 2 cents in a direction he did not ask for?
I'm not saying your idea is ill, just not with the program and the comments just become a set of non helping jibber jabber.
