Quickest SBE 318 car?

daveakre said

That's pretty cool! And people say 318's can't perform. :)

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Seems to me a lot of it had to do with chrysler not marketing it as a performance engine, mainly as a daily driver and utility block, so it never got the bells and whistles like ported heads, rollers and such. Kind of a missed opportunity if ya ask me since that's how ford marketed the Boss 302, but hey when you release a bunch of big block performance monsters like the 440 I guess you don't consider a 318 a performance engine :D

I have one in my 91 Dakota, not the most powerful setup on a factory TBI and it needs some work but dam has it been an energizer bunny! We've had a lot of cars through the years, a lot of duds, but mom finally made a win when she helped me get that for my first vehicle. No matter what that thing started and got me everywhere, even with subzero temps and roads iced over 2 inches. It's never left me stranded (save for when my brake line got slashed). That thing still runs no problem, it just keeps going and going