to stroke or not to stroke?

love these threads by the way.....this is my way of thinking, I have the heads, intake, carb, headers, etc on a 360 , so in considering a new short block build , is a stroker that much more money than a 360 build? I understand the stroker kit cost itself is, but other than that is it that much more?

my thought is if I'm going to pay machining costs , pistons, camshaft for a stock stroke 360, why not build a 408 for not much more money for the extra torque/hp for a street motor

I've only built stock stroke engines , just wondering what you experienced folk think
This is exactly why I did a stroker. It's all in the crank and pistons. The difference between a new stock crank & pistons, and a new stroker crank & pistons ? Like $400? $400 for an extra 50 cubes. I was sold.