318 with 360-587 1.88 heads

1wild&crazyguy said
i wouldnt worry about the push rod length. Figure the cheap head gaskets are .045 thick, funny how when schmos change head gaskets no body crys about too short a push rod...
'a lil' extra pre load wont hold the valve open. milling is around 60 bucks, u might have 120 bucks tied uo in it meanwhile the rhs heads have too large chambers and would need work as well and new rebuild heads cost 400 plus.
id at least mill the 587 to get an honest 8.5....otherwise itll be gutless down low with **** for snap.
thats hy people always cry about 360 sucking on a teen....cause they eont mill them to get better than the 7.5 compression they end up with...

Talked to 2 machine shops and one wouldn't do it. Both said get pistons. The other said he would do it at a price of like $180-220 for the heads and the intake would be extra. But he said he doesn't recommend taking that much off the heads. I don't have alot of machine shops around here especailly that do mopar stuff. At that price maybe pistons are the call. What are some good pistons that will get me where I need to be? 9-1 or more?

Like every build things start spiralling into be not being a cheap build. I could just run it as is I guess.