340 vrs 360

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DFX 340 Duster said:
ROTFLMAO

Boy there certainly are some touchy 360 guys in here.

The 360 is a good little motor. Plenty of them out there and cheap. You can spend a little bit of $ to make them go a little bit faster or you can spend a lot more $$ to make 'em go a lot more faster if that's what you want to do.

In all of my Mopar days, most gearheads have expressed an appreciation for a 340 car with a genuine 340 motor in it. Yes, you can dress up something else to look like a 340 but it is still not a 340. That's why an "idiot" sometimes asks the question. It is just for the "cool" factor.

I bought my genuine 1971 340 Duster with intention of pulling the 318 that now resides in the engine bay and stabbing in a 5.7 Hemi. I have had a lot of requests by my gearhead friends to find a 340 and put it in so the the car is "complete" or "cool". Not one of them said "hey! Stab a 360 in it." They all said something to the affect of "you can put a 5.7 or a 360 in anything but a 340 car should have a 340 in it."

So, please calm down you 360ers. You have a fast motor. Be happy!
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No kidding....I agree
 
I'm going to sell the 340 that's in my dart and use the proceeds towards my stroked 360. The look on the "idiots" face when I tell him "No, it has a 408 in it" should be worth the price of admission alone!!!
 
They all said something to the affect of "you can put a 5.7 or a 360 in anything but a 340 car should have a 340 in it."

So much for my 340 car.
 
BrianT said:
I'm going to sell the 340 that's in my dart and use the proceeds towards my stroked 360. The look on the "idiots" face when I tell him "No, it has a 408 in it" should be worth the price of admission alone!!!
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I hear ya. I often got that look when I told them my '64 Dodge had a big block 372 in it.
 
360's and 400's got a bad rap because they were mostly only used in 4500lb sleds with 8.5 pistons and OSAC valves and 2.45 gears and tons more horrible stuff I can't even think of right now. The 78 down E58 360 was a nice package.
 
Further, if you want to go to the track, find an original /6 car. In the meantime put a 340 in your H code and sell it to the "idiot" then fund your whole project with that money.

Makes a lot more sense $$$-wise.
 
On second thought, why jerk around with them little things....you know you really want this....
 

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What about an LS1?, isnt that what all the cool people are doing? :toimonst:
 
DFX 340 Duster said:
ROTFLMAO

Boy there certainly are some touchy 360 guys in here.

The 360 is a good little motor. Plenty of them out there and cheap. You can spend a little bit of $ to make them go a little bit faster or you can spend a lot more $$ to make 'em go a lot more faster if that's what you want to do.

In all of my Mopar days, most gearheads have expressed an appreciation for a 340 car with a genuine 340 motor in it. Yes, you can dress up something else to look like a 340 but it is still not a 340. That's why an "idiot" sometimes asks the question. It is just for the "cool" factor.

I bought my genuine 1971 340 Duster with intention of pulling the 318 that now resides in the engine bay and stabbing in a 5.7 Hemi. I have had a lot of requests by my gearhead friends to find a 340 and put it in so the the car is "complete" or "cool". Not one of them said "hey! Stab a 360 in it." They all said something to the affect of "you can put a 5.7 or a 360 in anything but a 340 car should have a 340 in it."

So, please calm down you 360ers. You have a fast motor. Be happy!
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if its not numbers matching then the 340 is just another motor.
 
I know if my 340 goes cow $hit I'm going stroker 360 or 5.7 hemi. I don't have the original engine so I don't care.

You'll find most all 340's have had the living crap ran out of them. The bearing in mine were so fried......and it was .030 when I got it.
 
abodyjoe said:
lol. for an extra 2K i want something faster not "just as fast".

hell take a long time to get that 2K back in gas mileage.

and you would still have to deal with that awful fart sound coming from that slannty. may as well go get a honda and get really good mileage..
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Actually for 2k you get a motor just as fast as a V8 that actually has something unique about it and isn't some pos honda motor. When you pop the hood people don't say "another sbm" they say "wow! Slant 6!" and further more you get to see the look on the v8 guys face when your slant stomps there 360...

As for the sound quality...

My car

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Some of my favorites.

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Now lets look at gass milage. Getting 20 mpg. Your car uses 5 gallons of gas in 100 miles. Now look at the V8, 100 miles at 15 mpg uses 6.667 gallons of gas. Gas in NC is $3.57 a gallon. So in 100 miles you save $5.95. In 33,600 miles, you just saved $2,000. Say gas goes up to $4 a gallon (only a matter of time), the slant saves $6.68 per 100 miles. Sudenly you saved your $2,000 dollars in 29,900 miles. If you car is your daily driver like me then your putting somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K miles a year on your car. So in three years time, your slant pays for itself. Now if your like me and you take frequent roadtrips in your car and rack up 25K miles a year, your slant has paid for itself in just over a year.
 
/6 Matt said:
Actually for 2k you get a motor just as fast as a V8 that actually has something unique about it and isn't some pos honda motor. When you pop the hood people don't say "another sbm" they say "wow! Slant 6!" and further more you get to see the look on the v8 guys face when your slant stomps there 360...

As for the sound quality...

My car

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ecsmdtWMSro" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Some of my favorites.

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<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zpOgKhvbf0w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O4Kl9MBr15o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Now lets look at gass milage. Getting 20 mpg. Your car uses 5 gallons of gas in 100 miles. Now look at the V8, 100 miles at 15 mpg uses 6.667 gallons of gas. Gas in NC is $3.57 a gallon. So in 100 miles you save $5.95. In 33,600 miles, you just saved $2,000. Say gas goes up to $4 a gallon (only a matter of time), the slant saves $6.68 per 100 miles. Sudenly you saved your $2,000 dollars in 29,900 miles. If you car is your daily driver like me then your putting somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K miles a year on your car. So in three years time, your slant pays for itself. Now if your like me and you take frequent roadtrips in your car and rack up 25K miles a year, your slant has paid for itself in just over a year.
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No offense to the slant 6 owners, but no matter what you put on them, they will never match the sound of a true V8.
 
my original H code demon has a 360 in it with the original 340 under the workbench, many of the 340's floating around these days are worn, will not pass crack check, or have thin Cyl walls. if our going to drive and beet the snot out of it just start with the cheaper 360.
 
/6 Matt said:
Actually for 2k you get a motor just as fast as a V8 that actually has something unique about it and isn't some pos honda motor. When you pop the hood people don't say "another sbm" they say "wow! Slant 6!" and further more you get to see the look on the v8 guys face when your slant stomps there 360...

As for the sound quality...

My car

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ecsmdtWMSro" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Some of my favorites.

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8d-qqeK0B-I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zpOgKhvbf0w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O4Kl9MBr15o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Now lets look at gass milage. Getting 20 mpg. Your car uses 5 gallons of gas in 100 miles. Now look at the V8, 100 miles at 15 mpg uses 6.667 gallons of gas. Gas in NC is $3.57 a gallon. So in 100 miles you save $5.95. In 33,600 miles, you just saved $2,000. Say gas goes up to $4 a gallon (only a matter of time), the slant saves $6.68 per 100 miles. Sudenly you saved your $2,000 dollars in 29,900 miles. If you car is your daily driver like me then your putting somewhere in the neighborhood of 10K miles a year on your car. So in three years time, your slant pays for itself. Now if your like me and you take frequent roadtrips in your car and rack up 25K miles a year, your slant has paid for itself in just over a year.
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like i said.. an extra 2k for a car just as fast and sounds like a fart going down the road. and WOW a 6 cyl? lmao.. ok you say so.. look it is what it is, you like the 6 then hey knock your self out man but i'm not wasting my time with one.

and yes lets see the real mileage here. you say your getting 20 mpg? there are plenty of 360 cars out there getting that mileage. hell i threw together my car with a carb that is way too big for it and got 17mpg without even trying. getting 3 more should be easy if i ever get around to it. and i'm sure that slantty didn't get 20 mpg right off the bat either. took some tuning and if you say any different your full of ****. give me the tq of a v8 every day of the week.
 
Leaf blower, you are not serious are you?? You can't tell me that you would prefer the sound of your / over [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWC-plhbHzc&feature=related"]YouTube - &#x202a;1971 Hemi cuda idle and rev #2&#x202c;&rlm;[/ame] or [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPTeetaWZ3Q&feature=related"]YouTube - &#x202a;69 Hemi Dart to staging&#x202c;&rlm;[/ame] or [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPkw0XElc10&feature=related"]YouTube - &#x202a;starts like a slant six&#x202c;&rlm;[/ame]
 
abodyjoe said:
and i'm sure that slantty didn't get 20 mpg right off the bat either. took some tuning and if you say any different your full of ****.
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Yeah cause I started off with an avg. of 22. 7 years, 50k miles later with a couple jets and one electronic ignition upgrade, I'm averaging 20... Good thing I'm not full of ****, I'm already full of hot air! :toothy7:
 
360's are a great engine, i have one in my cuda. low compression but with some decent X-heads. runs like crazy even with a 3:23 gear. i like 340's too but you gotta run a little more gear with them.

as far as the guy with the "bad *** six", if you drove that car around with a healthy small block one time that six would be a garage ornament. i use to work on a 225 that was hopped up in a 65 cuda and ran low 14's. it was ok, but that swarm of bees sound really got old. he could have done the same thing with a stock smog 360 with a decent intake and a set of headers.

How fast is your six?? :angel2:
 
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