Help me please tryin to beef up 318

Just stick the 360 heads on the teen go somewhat mild with the cam. Big cams bleed off compression and 360 heads on a 318 lower the compression ratio a bunch.


I have a 318 stock short block with stock 360 heads, 340 spec camshaft, torker II intake, edelbrock 600 cfm carb, cheap flowtech headers, Lightweight distributor advance springs and an orange box.

It runs very well and didn't cost me much at all and it runs on low octane gas. One thing with this build is you need a lot of timing, most high performance engine builds run around 36 degrees total timing but since this is so low compression it likes somewhere around 40 total. Lightweight advance springs also helped ALOT with the low to mid range power.