360 heads on a 318 of any benefit?
After getting my start in the world of aircooled vw's where most of the performance to be gained is bolt on (type 1 engines) I'm loving how much more complexity there is once you get pretty deep into this stuff. It's cool that a forum like this exists to share ideas.
That said, sooo many options depending on application!
Mine is best described as shared (other cars in the stable) daily driver with severe bite, think rabies. To be honest I'll probably only get her out on weekends, bad for the car to do a round trip of 10 miles I'll beat up on the old Beetle with the Subaru engine for short trips.
So the application is: Street use, keeping the stock 904 and 8 1/4 rear. More stoplight to stoplight, I'm not looking for a high RPM machine.
Am I getting into territory here where I should be thinking about a slightly higher stall speed TC than stock? The trans is coming out in the near future for it's replacement anyway so while I'm at it...What is stock stall speed?
Rumblefish: That link you sent is what I'm trying to achieve, although with a little less headwork for now I'm just going to clean up the stock 318 heads with a dremmel for better flow, it's convinced me to go for the Edelbrock performer also (along with all the other posts in this and many a topic)
That cam he speaks of (761 MP) if I were to put something similar in, would I have to replace my valve springs on the stock heads?