Recent content by 4eighteener

Along that line, Dan I found another one of those Florida car deals on marketplace over the holiday weekend, and thought of you. It's not an A body, but a 91 dodge Dakota standard cab, short bed, 318 v8. I don't want to hijack the thread, so pm if interested and I will pass along the information

I have used that summit cam on a stock '86 318 rebuild.i bought it mostly due to good pricing, in addition to a 600 summit carb, performer intake, and headers, original 302 heads, but fwiw, I was disappointed in it below 3000 rpm. I found the off the shelf comp xe250 to be the better performer...

True that, but since no other information is given to previous block work, it is a starting point. In fact, no other requirement given except for, a street engine, 4.100 bore, standard stroke. One other nice thing about those pistons are their lightweight, lighter than the stock 340 pistons...

For a street piston, these may work well for you. Hypereutectic with a deck height of 1.840 will put you .018 above deck, which will help with your open chamber heads. Relatively inexpensive at $390 amazon/$409 cnc motorsports. Negative is the thicker 5/64th ring pack, but what your 340...

I would suggest the Mahle power pak with their 1mm ring set, but I do not believe that they have a 340 piston. 060 over

That hits a might bit too close to home for me:rolleyes:

Every once in a blue moon I see something in good condition, and low mileage like that come up for sale here in Florida. Probably due to the high amount of senior citizens down here who give up driving and park them in their garages. Although far from Dan's hometown. It looks in good enough...

and that's why I never magnaflux. Those magnetic test tend to crack parts:),

Dan, how about this car for you, 318 and ac, with only 28k miles!

Maybe check with, @PRH for your cylinder head needs

I have been recently dealing with Mike at B3 from recommendations I saw here on FABO, and have been impressed with his knowledge, and more importantly, his attitude. He has been a real help and a pleasure to work with. Sorry, not trying to hijack the post.

I hear ya, a head that flowed 260 cfm ootb, and the porting potential into the 300 would be a one stop shop head for both the street and the strip. Besides the price, I remember not wanting to deal with the rocker shaft blocks when they came out. Of course there wasn't a FABO around back then...

and closed chambered!

I hear ya

A good street piston none the less and inexpensive at cnc motorsports. Most forged pistons have gone the 1/16th ring package or smaller. Maybe some older trw type pistons available in the classified section with the thicker ring package