318 combos?

If you're compression is really at 8.9:1, its not that bad. Obviously a little more would be better, but with the pistons .060 in the hole that might be hard to do. What thickness head gasket is that with? Mopar is reproducing a .024-.028 compressed thickness gasket now, Mancini has them. Worth almost a half a point over a standard .039 gasket.

I think you're in the ballpark hp-wise. The biggest limitations of the 318's were a stock compression that was actually more like 8:1 or less, and anemic heads. The RHS heads flow VERY well, and a compression ratio at 9:1 (or even close) is still better than stock. You might be able to do a little better with tuning, but the cam is going to limit how much advantage you ultimately get out of the heads. Cams aren't that horribly expensive, if you've already bought the heads you might as well bite the bullet and get a decent cam to run with them.


Hey thanks. Brian at IMM told me not to use a thinner head gasket. Wouldn't help as it would create other problems, too much velocity in the heads I think? I don't remember...But the engine is already together and ready to be installed....I will run it for a while, and see if I like it...Its already a tired block bored 060 over that was done previously and I just did a hone job, and cleaned up the old pistons. lol.

Sorry to hijack this thread about my post, but maybe my engine specs (and shortcomings) will help what and what not to do....(don't use edelbrock cams! lol) I shoulda went with a comp mild solid flat tappet. :)