For me personally I was going to do a 390 from a 318 but found them a little less common then doing the 360 into a 408 and thus being a little bit more expensive for the Pistons. Ends up my machine shop had a 360 block for $150 which was less than the extra cost of the Pistons at the time so why not do they 408 for less money? With that said I just looked at Jegs and Summit for a complete kit from scat.. (side note I would always go Summit over Jegs) I think it was $1,400 and that included a cast 4 inch crank, scat I-beam rods, icon forged pistons. Also arp Rod bolts and main bearings rod bearings and total seal piston rings.. aka the whole ball of wax LOL... I bought it flat out and had it sent to my house and gave it to the machine shop to save machine shop markup... Of course your "conductor" as I call it the cam... I called Ken at Oregon cam grinding and told him what I wanted just like you've told us what you wanted and he will grind you a cam for that motor and your gears and your combination for what you described you want. Not for all out performance not for this or that but what you want personally... Take that as well and drop it off at the machine shop.. also when you choose those Pistons you're probably going to want the dished Pistons so the compression isn't too high... I went with 596 360 heads and had 202 valves put in them and I'm very happy with them.. on the other hand two things I always wanted to aluminum heads and I found that Speedmaster aluminum heads on sale ended up being less than what I had to put into my cast-iron heads... the reason I mention that food for thought as once you put the stroker kit in there I don't think the 318 heads are going to be super happy. Not that they wouldn't work but there would be seemingly a restriction... Anyways more $0.02 since you asked for it...
