Today, dollar for dollar, is the 318 faster than the 340 ???

Why not help the newbies and tell them to find more money instead of throwing garbage together. I don’t care who you are, you can’t build anything decent with 3k. Not even close. As I said early on, this argument is to fluff your ego. The real world doesn’t operate on financial skimping that ends up with something that is just a cleaned up worn out engine. I see you are quite happy the poll is rolling your way, and I call that a sad testimonial to the state of the hobby right now. Cheap is cheap and cheap is almost never good.
There's a guy on here building 408 short blocks for $ 2900.00.