LA 318 advice

At the shop I was working at in 1990 there was a disassembled, “remanned” 318 in the core pile.
It had been there since before I started, and I had no idea what the history was.
One day I decided to see what the story was.
I really couldn’t find any reason it had been disassembled.
It was already .040 on the bores, and the crank had been ground.
Stock reman job on the open chamber heads.

So I figured I’d clean it all up, get rings, bearings, gaskets, do some whittling on the heads(175-ish cfm) and put it together.
I had a used Perfect Circle brand 340 replacement cam that went in it, and I bought a std performer for it.

I never measured anything, so no idea what the actual CR was, but I seem to think the pistons weren’t near the top, and the heads just got a clean up cut.
I did run it on the dyno.
I ran a few carbs on it…..tried some spacers, moved the timing all around…….didn’t quite make 300hp.
I think the best was low 290’s with a 650DP on an open spacer.
All testing was done with 1-5/8” headers.

I sold it a guy I knew who put it in a Ramcharger, and it was a nice improvement over the stock 318 that came out.

So, it takes a pretty low effort to get close to 300hp.