Damn good info

I don't know why anyone would swap a 'good running' 318 La for a 318 Magnum all that work for 20 horsepower perhaps seems really stupid.
Obviously if the LA 318 is smoked it's worth it. Aside from that exception.. I'd go with with more cid if I were pulling motors just for a power upgrade.

I get it, some of you want a cheery upbeat review. Okay ... they're great... they're great truck motors. After that strip them down to a short block and bolt good **** onto them and they'll really fry tires.

Hypereutectic Pistons, roller cam ,1.6 rockers, heads are okay if they're not cracked. Just change the basic **** ,oil pump, timing chain, cam if you want to really hot rod. Why is this a mystery. Lol
It's really common sense, it's just another 360 v8 with a better cam and bigger valves. As I've said in the past, if that same head came 1.88/1.60 instead of 1.92/1.625 it probably wouldn't flow the marginal amount more it does. Lmao it's a truck head for a 360. small volume,velocity.. torque. It's an example of why under 4000 rpm a ported 318 stock valve head will run better than a 360 head flowing the same. Sometimes it feels like this place take a few steps backwards catering to obvious hype driven nonsense. What yr is it?lol no offense to anyone.. just seems like geeking out with phonie Tony fever is going around. Maybe itll be rediscovering toilet paper next.. poor tony.
It's all relevant and proportional to cid/rpm. Anyways...Right on. I'm going to some beer now.