dont know if you all got me right (maybe my German-English leads to the wrong conclussions)
- the head job was allready done some years ago ... and these 318 heads are the heads i will use just because it´s the only set that i have laying around (and i´m not willing to purchase another set
- the deep pan is allready here in my hands
- the windage tray is allready here
- the 340 cam is allready here
- the 340 intake is allready here
- the offenhauser 360° intake is also allready laying in my Basement
- the deep pan would not an issue because the headers reach lower than the deep pan.
- no i wouldn´t change gears, just because it´s f*ing expensive in Germany to get parts like proper gear sets for an 8 3/4
(we could not walk into a summit store or what ever .. everything has to be shipped and imported to Germany, which means we have to add approx 20% taxes which have to be payed for the part+shipping costs, and we do not have junkyards with old american cars. so it´s not so easy to get parts. most of the time we try to trade with other mopar guys)
my questions will be:
- would you go with a deep pan or with the stock pan with or without windage tray - it´s just to hear what you would prefer and why ?
- which intake would you prefer the stock 340 iron one, or the offenhauser 360° single plane and why ?
- would you advance the cam-timing or not ?
what will be your choices if you have to deal with the given parts ?
What casting number 318 heads do you have. Except for #302 casting heads which came on mid-80s 318 s, all other 318 heads are open chambered and you will lose compression by using them. The high performance 273 had closed chamber heads and Dome Pistons to get the compression up to 10 and 1/2 to 1 the four-barrel the dual-point distributor in the very slightly larger camshaft is what made 235 horsepower out of a 180 horsepower 2 Barrel engine with low compression. I personally wouldn't want to put open chamber 318 heads on a 273 I think you're going backwards.
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