Is building a stroked 318 better than a stroked 340/360?

Bleeding edge racing engines (pro stock, F1, NASCAR, etc) really have no place in this conversation. They're different animals and drawing conclusions about what they're doing and saying hey I should do that on my old school Mopar. Will it hurt? Probably not. Will it have a significant effect? I.e. something that is measurable in any way, from butt dyno, real dyno, quarter mile times? I don't think so. Sure a few hp give or take. But that's the small stuff.

For those of you that disagree, find me one dataset where this stuff is apples to apples scientifically compared and shows a real result. If you can show that then by God I'll back pedal what I'm saying here.

But I doubt I'll see anything.

You won’t see a bunch out there. Why would you? Why should someone do all the work and/or pay for it and post it?

It all matters. It’s all interrelated. You might find 20, maybe 30 hp and not spend a cent more IF you don’t ignore important **** like rod ratio and how it affects cam timing, how cam timing affects compression ratio and so on.

You can think and believe whatever you want, but saying geometry doesn’t matter is just silly. Or ignorant.