Since Strokers are the topic......

Oh, that’s why he’s seeing less piston selection… it’s 318 based.

that makes sense.

And good point about taking 3 steps backs and looking at the Total Cost. If it’s $250 more for a 318 forged piston kit than a 360 cast piston kit… think about finding a $250 local core 360. If you only find $600 cores locally, then forget it.
I was hell bent on stroking the 318 and when I talked to the machine shop that was going to do the work they said they had 360 cores for 150 bucks... That right there guaranteed that it was going to be a good core. I just took my car in this last year for the stroker for my truck build and he said he can't find them...