Best Years for the 318 LA?

If you want a roller cam, it's the cheapest way to go. They will have the forever controversy 302 heads on them. When it comes to heads and comparing the small valve LA 1.78/1.50, I do not see a big advantage. Closed chamber heads bump the compression but I don't see a flow enhancement on the ports. Really, splitting hairs in my opinion.


The 66 and 67 920 heads are closed chamber and supposed to be good ones. I don't think they flow much better than the 302's and they don't have hardened seats.


I had my head guy install 360 valves with hardened seats in my 920's and port them...

They will flow just as good as a stock 340/360 head and have the smaller combustion chambers for the compression increase...