If cheap is your goal I'm with everybody else who says find a 360. Otherwise your 318 with a 3.79 crank gets you 364....which is real close to the upper end of %1 over. As mentioned , I can only hope a teener lives with what trying to do, I wouldn't race on "hope" alone tho. It will also be ALOT less difficult to break the 700hp mark it looking at. And I would assume no shrouding issue(which is where this all started). I dunno fells like a right tool for the job situation, but hey, it also sounds like your trying to make something out of nothing so I guess getting on the track beats sitting in the bleachers. Go for it! Good luck buddy.
