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66fs said
Blah Wha wha wha. No one "needs" to go out and get a POS 360. I have built all MOPAR small blocks for the street. I don't play with numbers. We built engines, ran them, and tried all kinds of combinations. We used what we had. All engines have their advantages and disadvantages. I personally love 273's and 340's. I love high rpm's. All MOPAR small blocks can be made to run very fast with a little thought and a little money. What do factory 360 heads cost anymore with everyone thinking they have to have aluminum heads? Once again you are answering a question no one asked. The poor guy even said it twice. Never would I consider a 360 for one of my cars. I had them, built them for others, sold them all, even a HP with a factory shot peened CFD crank and windage tray. Still have three 340's, four 273's, one 318 Magnum, two 383's, and one HP 440 that I will probably never use. That does not include any of my early Hemi's. Tell me again about being outclassed by a stupid 360 again... and I run a 273 and a 4 speed.

The 360 was a smog motor you can do the same with it that you would a 318 to get performance out of it, it is already bigger bore higher flowing heads, its the displacement of air that comes into play here. I mean if its heads machine work cam etc that you do with a 318,its the same effort for a 360 really and in the end you are displacing more air. this discussion could go on forever I suppose, and I am not beating down 318s, I just wouldn't think of starting a build with one, I have the 340s I suppose that is just where Im at. The 318 I have is totoally stock internals, stock heads, I ran it with 3.91 rear and 4 speed, it was fun, on the street but it was restricted breathing at high rpms, i dunno it just fell flat at a certain point. I suppose heads would have helped. The 273 was replaced with the 340 for a reason as the Hi Po small block. The engineers knew what they were doing.