318 power?

Thanks for the babes.
To answer your question. It is because he is messing with what he has and/or he wants to build a 318.
By following your logic, you show yourself as a hypocrite because of what is written below.

Just help the man build the 318!


Exactly! The freakin guy is messing with a 318, for anyone that doesn’t help him build a 318, STFU & walk away from the thread.
You non helping guys suggesting for a bigger and cheaper engine (340/360) are hypocrites and if you follow your own logic, you would have suggested something along the lines of an Indy max block and said stroke that till it hurts for the biggest and baddest displacement possible!

Everyone knows bigger is better for more power but do you all have to really hammer every 318 thread?

Why is it you can’t just help the guy with what he’s got?
I always loved the Build a 318 and go out and just KICK some A mentality and wait for the other guy to argue Profusely about being beaten by one, They can't accept that fact until you show them the stamping and casting on the block !!! It ultimately HAD to be a 340 but then what the hey, it's basically the same block. What works for the one works for the other, just like building a 307 or 327 or 350 Cheby, or any of the other SB's out there. There's been plenty of super fast 283's, 289's, AMC 290 and 304's 343's, Buick's and Pontiacs of small sizes,