trying to pull ponnies with little cash

Ramman What is your budget for this endeavor? Target goal?

The best thing you can do for the money is change the pistons for some KB167's. It will do wonders for the little 318. Cheap performance cam, anything is better than stock. If you do some basic head work yourself, thats free HP. A little bit goes a LONG way in a stock head.
I'm glad you said that. Every time I say use your 318 head on your 318, I get slammed by the "Intelligent crowd" on it being a poor / wrong choice.

Nice to have a builder of Chrysler engines say it.

Mate,to be honest a 400hp 318 is gonna be a pretty nasty engine and it's gonna cost!!!

MRL Performance, I think nqkjw was refuring to the engine displacement and cm size leading to a nasty chopping idle and street manors, due to the small displacement and cam size needed for 400 HP. How it all reacts in the engine that is only 318 cubes vs. a 340/360 cube engine.