My "new" '74 Duster- or why I need a project like a hole in the head

Is there such a thing as too many projects? Nice start.:coffee2:

Yes! Absolutely. When you don't have the time or money to finish them all, you've got too many. I'm pretty much at my limit, and my time and money is pretty much spoken for until sometime a decade or so from now.

Quick update- Changed out my water pump, took care of that leak. Ordered a champion radiator from challengergary, great guy to deal with. Just got that installed, I did have to drill a couple of mounting holes in the flanges as the predrilled ones weren't quite in the right place. Might have something to do with me converting my 22" radiator support to a 26" radiator though.
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Also I finally decided to run a compression check on my 318 to determine for sure where my smoke was coming from. Check looks like this


Other than 8, everything looks really good. One of the valves was stuck on the seat from sitting when I picked it up, so that's probably whats going on with 8. It freed up with a quick tap on the valve with a dead blow hammer, but the seat may be a little rough. But, the rest of the numbers tell me the valve guides and seals are the source of my smoke.

Guess now I have to decide what to do about it. The heads are 302's, so I suppose I can just get a rebuild done on them.

Or I could see if I can find a set of magnum heads and do the conversion. Might pick up a little more compression, plus of course bigger ports and valves, and even a little lift with the 1.6 ratio rockers. Decisions, decisions...