Inputs on a home built 318 for red light to red light fun

AJ/FormS said
Before you go crazy, go find your guaranteed-to-fit-a-4-speed headers, cuz for "7500 and up" you can't be running logs.

Was going to spend the money and get the fender well headers for that body style

AJ/FormS said
>At WOT, with as much tire as you can fit into the stock tubs, the hi-winding 318 will likely burn right thru first gear,

Had planned to radius cut the wheel wells and put a 265/60/15 on the back and let it poke out the side with super stocker leafs

AJ/FormS said
The 70 318 was a "hi-compression" engine, and with 4 series gears, for stoplight fun, in an early-A, you could actually leave the long-block totally stock.

The motor was from a 1970 power wagon so I assumed it was a 8.4 or 8.5-1 motor for torque is this wrong ?

AJ/FormS said
AFAIK there are no off the shelf pistons available to run enough cylinder-pressure to support a cam for "7500 and up" ; meaning 10.5 Scr is NOT ENOUGH ratio to make enough low-rpm pressure for those times when you are just tooling around; this will force you to be down-shifting every time you have to drive over a nickel.
Consider your gearing;

Would I still be able to get a solid cam that isn't this high in rpms ? because that was one of the main things I didn't want to do away with

AJ/FormS said
so guess what, 4.88s is way too much gear. Like RRR said, 3.91s is more like it, and as others have said, 8000 is probably not realistic.... because now, 8000 with 3.91s and 24.5s; top of second-gear is 78 mph.
You could pick up some bottom-end torque if you re-cam for top of Second gear = more like 65mph. That would be more like 6600 with 3.91s, and the power-peak could be an easy 400rpm less, so 6200. That's still a heckuva cam for a 318.

My goal was to be able to be around 4500-5k rpms in 4th gear by the time it would cross a 1/8 strip I live in a town we're the ls camaros and coyote mustangs always brag they can be touch red light to red light by a quote on quote "poop old small block". Now if I were to go 2x4 or tunnel ram would this be a different story or a different out come on the intended plans ?

AJ/FormS said
So at a true 10.5Scr, with a cam that is likely to be two sizes bigger than the 292, the bottom-end is still gonna be soft, possibly/probably as soft or softer, than a 2bbl 273; if that is acceptable to you, only you can decide.

This is what I want to avoid at all cost !!! Lol