who has the fastest 318 ?!!!

j par said
Now I'm on the fence about how I'm going to go about the build?
Let the machine shop do everything? $$$
Let the machine shop just machine?
90% STRIP
please 318 ONLY!

Figure out the heads that will be used.
Select a piston that you can run with the chamber style of the selected head. The compression ratio for pump gas will be around 10.5- iron, 11.5-1 aluminum with a fairly large cam designed for track only since you said 90% track. The 10% street may require pump gas. This is a limiting factor. Otherwise, I'd go up another point of compression for "strip only."

It's the machine shop do the maching and I assemble the parts. Saves money and I like to do it myself.

Bore and home with a torque plate, forged slugs, after market rods and a forged crank.
Open up the oiling holes and oil pump as per MoPars instructions.
IMO, a roller cam block is best to start with. Then enter your mechanical roller cam.

Ryan Ward said
There's a book by Larry Sheppard "How to Hot Rod Small Block Mopar Engines" It' kind of dated, but It has performance build recipes with HP ratings etc. With different head /cam combinations. I would think it still applies today. The only advances would be head/ cam /induction technology. You may want to check it out. As far as fastest 318, I would want to know what heads/cam/induction system was used. I would like to see how fast a 318 would go with 318 heads on it etc. didn't Mopar have HP 318 heads in the 80's?

MoPar had 360 heads on there 318 4bbl. cars. Fully ported 360 heads will not out flow Edell. RPM or W2 heads. Those are the 2 heads I'd start looking at for starters.