360-383 A-debate...max builds need not apply.

Some of you are missing something in reading the factory horsepower numbers. Around 1972 the way the power was rated changed from SAE Gross to SAE Net. That's why the 340 horsepower dropped, not because it was necessarily weaker engine and certainly not by the amount the number changed. Also remember that the '74 360 four barrel was rated at 5hp more than a '73 340. Build 'em the same and you will get similar results (like the '71 Chrysler 1/4 mile times listed above).