Just breezing through this thread, but from what I know, and see, and understand, the 392s 354s, 331s, were more like the LA small blocks than that of any big block. I even think the timming chain sets of a small block POLY 318 are the same. Dont know for sure, but seem to remember a friend of mine who has a blown 392 for a rat rod project telling me that.

Kasey