318 question?

Bewy said

Pretty sure the Poly 318 cam is different to the 67 & later 318. Different lifter bore angle. Isky lists different part numbers for the two engine series.

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Thanks Bewy! You may be correct, I wasn’t sure about what cam it had in it so I took it to a machine shop friend of mine and he didn’t know what brand the cam was but he measured the lift and said it was slightly under what a standard LA cam was. Didn’t write the numbers down but he said it was negligible and should not make a difference. But he wasn’t up on what type 318 it was either just that the numbers showed it was an early version! He wasn’t sure of the year!
I’m thinking that back when they built the short block they may have been building a poly and ran into head issues and put it on mothballs or something. Maybe they could not find or didn’t have the heads? Not sure. Guy I bought it from said he bought it in 1998 and it sat in his garage on a pallet since then. So it is kind of a project for me.