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

I was arguing for nothing. Some clown was claiming the 400 horse 318 is a plentiful as French whores at a French ***** house. I’m saying they aren’t.

Edit: I forgot to mention in your above examples you blew the crap out of your 3k budget. And here is the issue with threads like this. A bunch of guys posting about stuff that is pie in the sky nonsense. But the OP is getting exactly what he wanted. He thinks he’s the pied piper but he’s really just blowing his own horn to a bad tune.
nobody said 400hp 318's are plentiful except you in this post. they merely said it's not that hard, or as expensive as some would have us believe.