340 Vs 360

rumblefish360 said

@Dartswinger70 I try and sometimes people get pissed off at me. It is what it is….
You still can not increase C.I.D. through RPM!
You CAN cycle through it more per second. Making use of all 8 cylinders faster in this way is how he is saying “Increased CID” which is IMO, not the way to say it.

This is where people like the 340 better. The shorter stroke can rotate or/or cycle through all of its cylinders quicker. If you reduce the engine size via stroke, the engine will keep doing what the example is above quicker and so on and so on….

An excellent example of this is the older super stock racers running tiny displays hind screaming 5K+ off the line and buzzing 9K on the big end. Wait…. They do that now!
LMAO!!!!

Back in my youth, the 318 paper weight was for people moving and the 360 “DOG” motor was for big car people moving.
383’s (A big block that thinks it’s a small block) was the poor man’s big block and somewhat disrespected because the 440 rules the day.

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yeah I cant get into the arguments with the book readers here IMO nothing has changed with 318s the LA ones, no one suddenly discovered something that makes the facts about these from the mid 80s suddenly untrue. Magnums I have no experience with but I would think they are the way to go in true low buck build scenarios. man its funny to think that 35 years ago 383 was the way to go like you said. I always played around with small blocks because like said they were free or just about free, but a first car of mine was a 318 B body then I found a 340 A body, and got rid of the "bigger car" LOL! But at the time I remember saying my B body "needed a 383..." this was 1988 or 1990 a guy I knew was into the big blocks would sell me stuff cheap even for back then, I bought a 360 cast intake with a carb adapter and 600 Holley for 40 or 60 bucks LOL! threw it on a 318 ...it was just too easy he'd call me a couple times a year "hey you want a 360...?" even when I bought my 70 Swinger 340 with all the spare parts in 1993, it was a steal...I wont say what I paid LOL!