Basic 318 Mods

273 said
If you really want street friendly power add replacement magnum heads and beer barrel intake with headers and duals.

Ouch! LMAO!

forphorty said
Yep. I remember AJ being the naysayer , didn't align with his math.

Yep! 318 hater. For good reason. It ain’t easy waking up a low compression 318 and even worse when it’s a smog era 318. They will perform good for what they are but they’ll never perform well. Not until you change the pistons and heads to something much nicer.

AJ nailed it. While you can shake up a smog 318 OK, it’s what I out lined above. It is a lot of work that should be done on a 340 or 360.

If one would want to do a 318, it’s because it’s ether a budget build what ya got or you wanna do a 318 because of the limitations and challenge yourself. Ether if fine by me and I won’t bash you for ether. However, if you have a few extra bucks to get a 360 core engine to build up, you’ll be happier.

@Dan the man, seriously, don’t add a cam to the low compression 318. If and when you want to try and build an engine, grab a 360 or 5.9 and have at it. It’s just a better bang for the buck with no to little down time with the car.