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

I have seen a couple of these 318 build articles and there are a few suspicious parts gotten from a friend of the build article or whatever... That always kind of threw me off...
It's almost kind of like saying kind of like I started with maybe that you get a fresh 318 and a fresh 340 but when you get the 318 you get an extra $850?...
I don't think the 340 Cultists would go along with this.