Again, this whole premise is complete nonsense. Your thread title is "Today, dollar for dollar is the 318 faster than the 340?" The answer is no. Not now and not ever because you can't correlate the price of block A with how well it performs over block B. Give it up already.
Perhaps the title could have been, "There's millions of 318s laying in the dirt out there waiting to be turned into just kinda so-so boat anchors, how fast can you make one go on a cheapskate budget of $3K?" I will say this though, it was genius marketing on your part to take the potshot, you've got everyone's panties in a bunch arguing in circles about nothing. Congrats on that end.
In 2021 if you're a bucks down kid wanting to build an engine you're pretty far behind the curve if you're listening to some old loon telling you to sink your hard-earned paper route money into some ancient, wheezy small block when you can go find a used Gen III and make more power in stock form than any of the old Mopar small blocks. I mean 300 hp, for crissakes WTF cares? You'd be the laughing stock of the street bragging about that kind of output. Late model import V6s make more power.
And honestly, I didn't even realize there are "318 guys" out there. Seems weird to claim you're part of that group. Have fun with that!
