My Dart Swinger Project!

I agree I know what you mean I cant even afford to build a 318 the way its needs to be done. I dont even have a garage. Lol I have an old house for a shop and a carport. But it is what it is. Someday Hopefully I will be able to afford more. I have a 360 core set back waiting for the funds to do it right. Idk if you followed my engine thread or not but I pulled the heads off last week and I have some rusty bores I cant afford to get it bored over and buy matching pistons right now some I'm gonna try and clean it the best I can and hone it install new rings and hope it works. Lol but yea I know exactly what you mean..

I've saved some pretty bad bores before. Get a properly sized dingleberry hone and some P'Blaster and hone the hell out of the cylinders. It might clean up. A true performance engine is generally a little looser anyway. I've run a forged piston 340 with almost .010" piston to wall clearance. LOL It ran quite good too. I used file fit rings and got the gaps right. Even still of course, it wasn't for the long term, but it did run good. And yes, it had piston slap. lol