Why are 318's low HP and torque?

Trust me. Whatever "book" you got that out of is WRONG. lol
I haven't confirmed but, I believe he is talking about advertised compression and not "static" compression. Even the earlier 67-69 blocks should be about 8.2.1 to 8.5.1 static? The later they the worse the compression height became and then after 72 was all downhill.