What would you do?

Two barrels feel like they have more power on a stock build because they don’t need a big carb. Four barrel carbs just dump more gas and it doesnt all get used so bogs it down. And if it smoked after they upped the compression they probably just swapped pistons and didn’t even hone the cylinder walls. Stock 318 engines where good for over 100000 miles anyday. They where reliable engines not performance engines. That’s why they made the 340