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

How is 5000-6000 dollars an expensive build in today’s money? If you are building things today like you did 35 years ago that is a sad thing.
some folks just dont have that much much money in there hole car! to have to spend that much on just the engine would flat run alot outta the hobby all together!! some folks can live happy with what you would consider compromised junk builds and some cant! if i could afford id build erry thing i got along your guide line but in reality i gotta live with in my budget! i know the difference and understand the results of building ether end of the spectrum! telling us we gotta build 15,000 dollar engine for rusted out daily beater or we wrong, might as well just call us plan whitetrash a be done with it....DWB