Do I go with the 318 or the 360?

I was hell bent on building and stroking my 318. Almost everything cost the same except pistons (as mentioned in post #18) in the end I just couldn't justify spending more money to get less cubic inches and less power. I definitely wouldn't buy that 318 that someone's already beat on and is looking to cash out so they can go build a 408 stroker with more power. There seems to be a little bit of information missing here like what's in the car now and what kind of rear end or are you looking to get the complete drivetrain rear end transmission and motor? Here's my advice or my two cents if you will first off anything that guy post 18 says you'd be best off to listen to. Second don't buy anybody's old junk. I had a block prepped for $450 that includes boring cam bearings the whole nine yards and I paid the Machine Shop 150 bucks for the block which in essence guarantees a good block. So that's 600. I paid about $1,400 to Jegs for the complete stroker kit that's crank rods Pistons bearings and rings so now we're at 2 Grant. now you have a solid bottom end. Now you could do anything you want put whatever head whatever turbo whatever nitrous whatever you want to do you have a solid foundation and you're not building your car like a kid. Putting big heads on a motor or big carburetors or that kind of stuff but actually building from the bottom up. A nice block that you can do anything you want to. Imho if you're even asking this question a 408 stroker would scare the dog crap out of ya! Among the parts that my stroker has broken - the brand new spooed eight and three-quarter 489 case caps blew off after about 20 passes. A harmonic balancer damn near spun and flew off the front of it. Remember it's a whole combination, you build up a badass motor and it's going to start breaking parts.
I'm sure a lot would like to know your whole combination now and how you plan to transform it into this other stuff? And now back to your regularly Scheduled bickering over? I've kind of lost track now....

1970boy said

Going to swap a small block into my daily driver dart but don’t know if I should do a 318 or a 360. I can get both engines for about the same price and they both put out between 400-450 hp the 318 has been fully gone thru on the top and bottom end with new everything and the 360 has all new stuff on the top end but nothing done on the bottom end... do I go with the high revving 318 or lower revving 360 with more torque on the lower end. I want my car to be a fun daily driver with that deep v8 growl and great power at the end of the day

Just looking for other people’s opinions on it.. also keeping in mind room for things in the future with both engines I’m interested in doing a turbo in the future and stroking out whatever engine I end up choosing just don’t know what to pick lol

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