318 low-rpm performance ........... for the NEWBE

Has anyone here built one of these so called 318 power makers with dyno slips? Ill never understand the infatuation, I mean if someone with a 318 doesn't ante up the $$$ for a 340 or 360 how are they going to dump the money into a 318? and it isn't cheap I'm dropping a set of j heads off tomorrow it may be 5 600 bucks till the machine shop is done with them. I know you experts will say "Speedmasters" but you still have to have the cash. Alot of bench racin...