building a mild Daily driver 318

318willrun said
If you just want to gain 50 - 80 horse, it's cheap and easy. Simply going to a 4bbl (my recommendation is Weiand Action plus with about a 600 cfm carb), add a cam roughly around a stock 340 (mopar performance sells the retro 340 cam), and dual exhaust (headers a bonus). For heads, I'd just have a valve job done on what you have, and open the bowl area (mildly) under the valve with a dremel. These mods listed would give ya the high side of what your looking for.

That. 600cfms are cheap, you can make a Holley act great, the Action+ or even a stock intake would be a good upgrade.

318willrun said
Just add horses. headers and duals is a for sure 20, 4bbl should be 20, 340 cam should be 20, mild home porting should be 10, and there is 70 horses ya wanted. :)

I really think something like that's about right. My winter rat with a stock teen wearing a 4bbl and headers pulls about like a 360 truck.

'nother vote for an 8.25. Fine rear end, wide gear selection, cheap gears, easy to get cheap LSDs for it, big bolt pattern upgrade along with the front discs- grabbing as much as you could from a stock big bolt 8.25 disc car would be the ideal way to do it cheap.