318 Dis-assemble & Assembled 1st time
The assembly is coming along fine. I took some of the advice given to me, per ususal and made some changes to the build. Also attached are some pics of the project.
Like a waddling politician I went back and forth to what the project should entail. One of the senior members here mentioned on a thread that you stick to the best plan. Making changes during mid-stream(waddling) makes for a longer and more expensive build. I learned from their mistakes and came up with a build after some conferring with members here and stuck to it... finally.
It was going to be a "rebuild" at first, but hearing horror stories about rebuilds... I went ahead and spent the extra $ to get a performance rebuild including align boring, square decking, torque plate boring and +/- 2.0 gram balance on the assembly.
I also took Moper's advice and bought KB 167 pistons and zero decked them with my Magnum heads. I was going to go the route of a 360 crank and get pistons for the 318... but in the end, I think I saved myself some $ and also stuck to the orignal plan.... without deviating.
I home ported the magnums, nothing fancy, more or less a clean up. Pics attached.
The rest of the plan is to use the cast iron intake 4BBL from an 1985 Police Dippy. I don't think there would be much a difference b/w using an aftermarket and this stocker. A Rochester Q-Jet 750 CFM. 1 5/8" Hedman Headers. The camshaft is the Summit Racing venerable .441/.441 @ 218/228 duration @0.050. It has been suggested by the author of the "How to build a Mopar small block stroker" to use a cam that favours the exhaust since the ports do not flow well.
The differential is a 3.55 with a Detriot Trak Lok.
Any ideas or advice as to how I am proceeding so far. And please, don't mach the M-Body 5th Ave. Besides, it has something many of you A-bodies don't have.... a hood ornament!
The assembly is coming along fine. I took some of the advice given to me, per ususal and made some changes to the build. Also attached are some pics of the project.
Like a waddling politician I went back and forth to what the project should entail. One of the senior members here mentioned on a thread that you stick to the best plan. Making changes during mid-stream(waddling) makes for a longer and more expensive build. I learned from their mistakes and came up with a build after some conferring with members here and stuck to it... finally.
It was going to be a "rebuild" at first, but hearing horror stories about rebuilds... I went ahead and spent the extra $ to get a performance rebuild including align boring, square decking, torque plate boring and +/- 2.0 gram balance on the assembly.
I also took Moper's advice and bought KB 167 pistons and zero decked them with my Magnum heads. I was going to go the route of a 360 crank and get pistons for the 318... but in the end, I think I saved myself some $ and also stuck to the orignal plan.... without deviating.
I home ported the magnums, nothing fancy, more or less a clean up. Pics attached.
The rest of the plan is to use the cast iron intake 4BBL from an 1985 Police Dippy. I don't think there would be much a difference b/w using an aftermarket and this stocker. A Rochester Q-Jet 750 CFM. 1 5/8" Hedman Headers. The camshaft is the Summit Racing venerable .441/.441 @ 218/228 duration @0.050. It has been suggested by the author of the "How to build a Mopar small block stroker" to use a cam that favours the exhaust since the ports do not flow well.
The differential is a 3.55 with a Detriot Trak Lok.
Any ideas or advice as to how I am proceeding so far. And please, don't mach the M-Body 5th Ave. Besides, it has something many of you A-bodies don't have.... a hood ornament!