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Dammit, for the cost of getting a stroker kit landed here I could as well find a 360 and Magnum heads are no easy find either. Looks like I may have to rethink the stubborn desire to keep it 318. Randomly stumbled across this whilst looking up the cam grind for the crane. Pokey! Old School...

Hello Neil, good to hear from you. We have bored several 318 teeners to 4inches without any issues. That's a 90-thou overbore for a 402cube with a 4 inch crank. My new idea is 110-thou overbore with turned down 340 pistons. If it stays together I will take it out to 130-thou for some stock 340...

I like the idea of the 349, with all the aluminum headed 408s out there, taking somewhat discarded parts (360 crank,heads,318 block) and make something out them, a 349 close enough to a 360 shouldn't be a huge power difference especially if you can bore out the 318 to 4" but seems like a hard...

with the added cost of a 360 starting point it almost makes sense to build a 318 stroker and use the savings made on the motor cost to put towards good heads. win, win, more cubes and savings on the heads to feed them.

I should also add, every realistic but tough goal was met. We owned the car 9 years, felt a little weird to wake up and it not be a part of our fleet, but life changes quickly and the hobby has to change with it. :)

Exactly. The slant 6 guys get more respect than the 318 guys do. May be with the 273's they get a little respect because of the 4 barrel version putting 5 more horse than a 318. Build a 360. I don't care, just give a little respect to those that don't.

if you're starting from square one, the most economical way to make more power is with more cubes. a 360 is cheap, abundant and has an absolute massive amount of less expensive go fast parts. THAT IS WHY EVERYBODY SAYS BUILD A 360 it takes more compression, more cam, more RPM and better heads...

No, it's stock stroke. The end plan was to build a stroked 318 into a 392 but never happened.

Torque wise, even though I don't think it's a big deal, the torque probably be for a 400 ish hp engine. 318, 380-400 tq 340, 400-425 tq 360, 425-450 tq Once you factor in the deeper gears and stall you should be running similar torque to the wheels, basically equals out, and if you don't want...

You have more than enough info to build a 350 hp 318, the exact specs kind of up to you everyone gonna do it slightly different, what the exact compromises your gonna make are probably gonna be different then the ones I and others will.

For ages, the HD 318-3 crank was the "go-to" for any serious performance build. BUT, be aware of the fact that poly cranks (manufactured up to '66, '67 for our northern neighbors) have a crank flange with a smaller pocket for the convertor nose, and if you are running a '68 or later automatic...

That is not true. Any decent compression pistons will cost money, 273 or 318. 273 factory pistons are about zero deck with closed chambers till 1967. nothing special needed. If you want more compression, the 10.5:1 Commando/Charger pistons were and are available. I would not run the real...

They are DESIGNED to work in a 318, so YES they will work in a 318 with open chamber heads. BUT will require clearance checks for chambers, and to determine compression ratio. And most likely milling of domes, chambers and deck surface. I dont know why it's so hard for people to understand...

Custom condenser to filter drier hard line. Hard line from filter drier to firewall is original to the car. Some guy on this forum used same condenser and custom hard line on a bronze '69 318 fastback. So I stole all the info from his build and copied it.

Can anyone tell me what car my 318 is out of? Build date of 6/22/71

thats basic 318 hotroding right there! im building one closer to this one, but different cam, some home porting...DWB https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/mopp-0409-318-engine-build/

a big block swap is not very budget friendly. most cost effective? getting running what you currently have and addressing all the other issues of operation and driveability-- brakes, sorting out that fuel line, probably wiring, tires and a battery will absolutely eat up a bunch of cash in a...

The only bore size that has a major limiting effect on high ish hp like 400 + hp is 273s 3.625" bore, And yet the bore is still big enough to satisfy the average performance enthusiasts, if they choose to build one. And a 318 bore is .285" larger than a 273, a 413 has a bore size that is closer...

If my builder told me they couldn't build a decent 318 I wouldn't trust them to build anything. Buddy likes to strawman his arguments generally insisting that people that want to build or defend building a 318 is cause they think 318 is better than a 340/360 an argument no one has ever made...

Hello, long time lurker - first time poster here. I'm looking for some small block stroker wisdom. I am building a track car out of a 72 cuda for 50% track days(twisties...not drag)/50% grocery getting/mopar events. I occasionally want to put the wife and kids in it so Im not planning on...

tony built that motor with the .007 bearing clearance on that 318 nick ran on his channel... i wouldn't let him build anything and i'm a hack... And andy should be the one butthurt after handing over 5k to a near stock 318 :)

Well good luck. I passed on a 318 build one of the guys started but didn’t finish. The old adage is if you put a million dollars into a Volkswagen you will have the fastest and most expensive Volkswagen in town. Just make sure the end justifies the means

Some things are timeless, including the path to good power production. Here's a build from 1988 that is still absolutely relevant now. Probably not many people would bother with iron heads these days given the availability of economic aluminum heads, but most of the parts an pieces here would...

And if he does it will be a turd.

Thats usually never discussed in the 318 threads...a guy who complains about the cost of a 340 or 360 isn't spending 12k on a 318 performance build.

It’s your old Valiant. It wont be seeing a 1/4 mile ever again, it doesn’t interest me. It may well wind up slung around tracks of a different kind though… No I haven’t but the name rings a bell. Who is he again?

The reason people build 318 engines are they can’t handle the bigger motors. lol! Or their wives won’t let them have a bigger motor. LMAO! Shall I keep going? Sorry OP - needed a good laugh Back to you olekimmer.

318 has forged crank and pretty sure full floating rods if already had the 318 it would be a no brainer

I don't like this strawman argument, Anti 318ers make it sound these people want to build a 450-650 hp 318. It's like 90% of the 318 threads is adding cam and 4bbl maybe headers and some even want to do something about the heads, wanting something like 250-350 hp, that's like asking 300-400 hp...

...Building a 360 is an investment with great R.O.I. Bandaiding (not building) a 318 is throwing good money after bad IMO. If its science experiments your into just follow the Mission Impossible 318 build and enjoy some popcorn in the comfort of your living room--or wherever you access YT. J.Rob