Basic 318 Mods

Dan the man said
Where would you start?

already said it.
and already did it,
every dumb way you can think of, I've done it.
I bought my First Mopar in 1970 at the age of 17. I bought a manual trans car with 3.55s, cuz I could "stall" it at any rpm I wanted to. The 3.55s were not in there long, coming out to make way for 4.10s. Stall and gears baby.

I went thru the low-compression, hi-way geared, no-performance era. My sheds are full of low-mileage 3.23>2.73 gears, and factory stall convertors. They are almost always the first casualties. I bet I have over a dozen of those. and probably the same number of low-compression, smog-era, 150hp, freaky, low-perf. 318s.
You wanna wake up a street 318?
Just slide a 340 under the 318 top end, and stuff a 318 cam in her. Instant tire-shredding capability with any rear gear, any 318 convertor; just drive it. Lemmee know if you need one of those for a core. lol.