Dang...

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600hp?
Musta had 302 heads on it.

When I was building some 318 roundy-round engines 30 years ago....... we had one blow out a cylinder wall.
The whole side of the bore basically disintegrated.
The walls were surprisingly thin.
It was a roller cam block with a couple seasons on it......stock stroke, .030 over, 2bbl induction.

The next year the rules changed and allowed 360’s.
No issues with those.
 
PRH said:
600hp?
Musta had 302 heads on it.

When I was building some 318 roundy-round engines 30 years ago....... we had one blow out a cylinder wall.
The whole side of the bore basically disintegrated.
The walls were surprisingly thin.
It was a roller cam block with a couple seasons on it......stock stroke, .030 over, 2bbl induction.

The next year the rules changed and allowed 360’s.
No issues with those.
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And a 340 cam!!
 
And THIS boys and girls, is why a lot of us tell you NOT to max overbore your blocks. Thin walls make less power, and they split easier. This guy WOULD have made more power, with a .010 over 360 block and it would likely have lived a long life making the 500ish actual power his thin wall grenade was making. BUT.... he was running around telling everyone how bad *** his "318" is/was. Uncle tony wanna be.
 
replicaracer43 said:
And THIS boys and girls, is why a lot of us tell you NOT to max overbore your blocks. Thin walls make less power, and they split easier. This guy WOULD have made more power, with a .010 over 360 block and it would likely have lived a long life making the 500ish actual power his thin wall grenade was making. BUT.... he was running around telling everyone how bad *** his "318" is/was. Uncle tony wanna be.
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And that’s a FACT
 
Yeah like; My 360 was 4.040 bore so that makes it a 367, and I used to leave it at that. But at carshows, I got so much flak for not building a 340 that eventually, I just started calling it a stroked 340; which ended all that.
Early on, I had trouble with the engine locking up after shut down, so I tore the engine down and increased the ring gaps, and honed her out to 4.044, so then it became a 367.9. I never bothered to upgrade my sig. So I confess to that. lol.
No big deal cuz the side of my block still says 360 on it.

But I also confess that people who come to FABO with their problems and fail to mention that their engine is a stroker, that bothers me. Cuz in some situations this becomes real important.
I got caught a couple of times, so now I just ask.

While I'm confessing,
I may as well say that a 230* cammed 11/1, 368(lol) is more engine than any Street A-body needs. I mean it goes 93mph in the Eighth for crying out loud!, and it shakes the neighborhood at 6AM, sucks gas at a pretty high rate, even with a clutch and 3.55s, and it easily lays rubber until it gets to any speed-limit in Manitoba.
Do you need that?
No, I suppose not ........ but it sure is fun.

If there is a next engine for me, it will be a lil smaller, Ima thinking 345, or maybe a 3.58 stroked 318=349, or maybe I'll just install a smaller cam in the 367 er 368 .......
What has this got to do with this thread?
Well, I'm still gonna rev mine to 7000, same as I always have ...... since 1999. and
I have this 1968/69 318 in my stockpile, of which it has been said, can safely be taken to 4.00, equals 333 cubes ............. sounds about right, don't you think? What do you think I should call it? Well Ima thinking that will depend on if I lose or if I win ....... kidding; I don't streetrace.
I think I'll call it a 5.4 liter .........
 
So what did the piece of crap run at the track. I recommend that he build a 318 HEMI then he can still brag it’s a 318.
 
Rat Bastid said:
Looked like it split a bore and hydraulic‘d the front of the engine off.

He keeps calling it a 318 because it was a 318 block he bored to 4 inch, probably without a sonic test. And it split.

Calling it a “318” disingenuous at best. I say that because he claims to be using “360“ pistons and they only at that can happen is with a 360 stroke.

Lots of smoke and mirrors and buckshot going on.
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He is using a 360 stroker piston. Not a stock 360 piston. Which of course is 4 in. As for calling it a 318 technically the block is a 318. However is kind of a enlarged inside to approximately a 402.
 
Icetech said:
mid 10's

P.S. no idea why you guys are being such dicks for no reason about this guys car..
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B cause he like many others are in fantasyland calling it a 318. It’s a damnn318 block end of story. That would be like me calling my keith black 572 a 440 because it’s based on a 440 wedge. Let it go and just tell the cubic inches like we call our stroked 360’s a 408. Just like calling E85 pump gas. E85 is equivalent of alcohol and has the same issues as alcohol. Hell I used to buy my alcohol and race gas out of the pump at the gas station. Still could I’d I wanted to but I wouldn’t call it “pump gas”. Lol. He’s silly.
 
replicaracer43 said:
And THIS boys and girls, is why a lot of us tell you NOT to max overbore your blocks. Thin walls make less power, and they split easier. This guy WOULD have made more power, with a .010 over 360 block and it would likely have lived a long life making the 500ish actual power his thin wall grenade was making. BUT.... he was running around telling everyone how bad *** his "318" is/was. Uncle tony wanna be.
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Why would you want to build a truck/smog engine? :)
 
pittsburghracer said:
So what did the piece of crap run at the track. I recommend that he build a 318 HEMI then he can still brag it’s a 318.
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5.7 has 3.91 bore, same as 318. Stroke is 3.58, like a 360. So he could be running a STROKED 318 Hemi!! :lol:
 
408 swinger said:
Had to stir the pot here fellas!!!!
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Uncle Tony hooked me in. :mob: :mob: Ya, he's wrong. You can't put a chain on too tight. He's full of it. And timing sets aren't "oversized". They are undersized for engines that have been line bored. Tony is a putz!
 
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toolmanmike said:
Uncle Tony hooked me in. :mob: :mob: Ya, he's wrong. You can't put a chain on too tight. He's full of it. And timing sets aren't "oversized". They are undersized for engines that have been line bored. He's a putz!
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But but butt he has a 600-625 horsepower 318 so he gotta know something.
 
Say what you want about this guy, have seen him running that one on YouTube. What's up with not running a Double Roller Cam Chain?

Where is the other half of that stock style cam chain? When the timing chain blows at 7000 rpm so does the engine. Pretty easy to pop that aluminum timing chain cover, then all hell breaks loose.

So the next question is, what other shortcuts did he take? And by the way he is running the Mopar 645 rods, so of course they are not going to break.

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George Jets said:
Say what you want about this guy, have seen him running that one on YouTube. What's up with not running a Double Roller Cam Chain?

Where is the other half of that stock style cam chain? When the timing chain blows at 7000 rpm so does the engine. Pretty easy to pop that aluminum timing chain cover, then all hell breaks loose.

So the next question is, what other shortcuts did he take? And by the way he is running the Mopar 645 rods, so of course they are not going to break.

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It would benefit some people to take some failure analysis classes
 
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