Want to build a 77 360 suggestions please

Here's my recipe, what I built, edit;my combo;
zero decked, 63cc closed chamber aluminums, a fast-rate [email protected] FTH, headers, AG, and 750DP.
That will be 11.0Scr/9.0Dcr/186psi/164VP . IDK how much HP that might make, but I can guarantee that you will not be disappointed running the biggest fattest street tires that will fit in the stock tubs. I guarantee it.
If a stick car, you can run a fast-rate [email protected] ..
Run the lift up as high as you can within the limits of the heads.
Check your piston to valve clearance carefully.
Do all the oiling mods
Edit;I Run 7000rpm springs and I recommend a 6800 rev-limiter, and I got a decent 8000rpm 270* sweep tach.
Get your valve geometry set up right.
Make sure your pulleys all line up perfectly.
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With an automatic,Run any 340/360TC you want/have, and at least a 3.23.. If you want to optimize your zero to 60 in second gear, run 4.56s and a small diameter tire, a 3000/3200TC and hang on tight. The right gear to optimize it in first gear is 3.23.
With a stick, it don't much matter, but the 3.55 is pretty nice. The optimum gear for zero to 60s are 4.30z for second, and 3.23s in first, 3.55s won't make it, unless you're like me.... just give her to 7000 and see if she hangs together.
Sell that 318fully dressed as it is.
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I hadn't heard of a 3.43 rear gear, but if you really got one, run it with a SG, a tight one, cuz she's gonna need the two-wheel drive.
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Oh wait, you want to keep the 318? lol. here we go again.
Wyrmrider nailed it, go stroker, but I'd be inclined to stop at 3.79 stroke.
Almost the only way to make pressure with a street 318 is to stroke it, or supercharge it.
IMO, factory-stock aluminum heads on any 160psi engine are kindof a waste, of money, cuz they will easily support 195psi and perhaps more. That's 22% more pressure, than the 160 safe iron pressure. At 185psi you can put any streetcam in that hummer, whereas in the iron equivalent engine, the bottom goes soft in a hurry.
The aluminum heads may still outperform almost any factory iron head you put on there at 160 vs 160psi, but you're spending a lotta money to break even and on a 318cid engine, it's pretty hard to affordably get the psi up high enough to take optimum advantage of them.
Some guys have bored their EARLY 318s out to 4.00, making them 340s.
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now a 3.79 stroker makes a 370 cuber, and it only takes 75.7cc Total chamber volume to make an 11/1 engine, to use aluminum heads optimally. That's too easy. Practically a slam-dunk. The above 223 cam will fall in with 61*ICA and make the 11/1 Scr into a 9.0Dcr/187psi/VP of 166, just like the 360 described in the opening paragraph. Compare that to the 318 factory VP of about 114, and yours if still at stock compression ratio,a VP of "gutless", around 102 with a small cam.
Ok, to be fair, to run that same 223 cam with iron heads, and an ICA of 61* your 318cid engine would need to be at 9.8Scr to maximize the pressure at 160psi .............................. and the VP would come in at; wait for it........ 124 about the same as a stock 360 2bbl...IIRC.
Here's the thing; if you decide the 223 is too small in your iron headed 318, the next bigger cam may drop your pressure to 155, and VP back to stock 318 status at 113..
Whereas with the aluminums and 187psi, the pressure would still be pretty good at 178, and the VP still at 133, about the same as a factory 340(134).
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Read about VP here;V/P Index Calculation
IMO, people don't put enough importance on this VP thing. While it's true you can just put a higher stall TC in your combo, to get past that soft zone; that does nothing for engine efficiency. And it make downshifts pretty much mandatory to blast off likeddy-split. And really, if you are already putting pistons into your engine, a couple of hours playing the calculator, can make the difference between a rip-snorting combo, and a gutless pos.
And with the possibility of gas soon becoming very expensive, IDK if you can afford to overlook efficiency. I mean we went thru that once in the 80s. When cheap Arab oil dries up, the USA will have to start selling your home-country gas, and you know nothing made in the USA is cheap!
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Oh wait, it currently has a 360 in it! Well then, back to the top: My combo

Edited for Rumble
I run 7000 plus springs and .020 preload, so that when I miss a shift and see the tach passing 8000... on it's way back down..... I can just jam it back into third and carry on like nothing ever happened. It beats the heck out of replacing all the valves. Sure I couldof installed a rev-limiter, but why?; my engine doesn't care.
And if I had 4.56 and an automatic; at the top of third I might be looking for another gear, it happens. And with an auto, you know I won't be lifting.. so that's why the recommendation followed.
OP asked for suggestions. I offered my recipe, cuz there is not one thing I would change. IMO, it's got to be as close to the ultimate street 360 based combo, as it gets.
93 in the 1/8 calculates, IIRC to 433 hp,at my weight that day. I drove there, I ran it 4 times, With one completed run. And then,I drove it home.
That's good enough for me.