1978 318

If I had it my way I would have him sell the 318 and 727 and swap an LS set up in it. $ for $ your not gonna beat them

Anyways back to the 318. He's looking to cruise this truck around and maybe hit the pulling track. Nothing crazy. If the motor is all dont at 5000 rpm that's fine. The truck has 4.10 gears in it as it is. A stall would definitely wake it up. He purchased the eq stage 1 heads, whiplash cam and headers. We will be putting an edelbrock 4bbl intake on with 600 edelbrock carb. I am having him send the distributor out to be recurved and have total mechanical timing around *36. I may talk him into sending that cam back though and getting one of the comp xe cams. I have an comp xe256 in my fe 352 that seem to work pretty good. We were thinking the whiplash cam would help with compression being low. What kind of piston to deck clearance do these 318 typically have?

When he bought the truck truck the guy said it had been rebuilt recently but we all know how that goes lol. He has the money to do the whole motor but doesnt want to spend it this year. I dont blame him. But maybe next winter he'll stroke it and then he will have a good top end to go with it already.

rumblefish360 said

Granted, a larger displacement is a better starting point.

What if, the person asking for help doesn’t have the money for a huge expenditure?

***’s like you don’t help and give the forum a bad rap as well as deter people from building up or enhancing there ride because of asshole arrogant post of a holier than thou angle.

You can sit there with your GD calculators all flippin day long and science out reasons why and in the end, it doesn’t hold any water.

Why?

Because the people looking to build what they have may not have the time, place or funds to purchase a unknown condition $700 - 340 and start from scratch.
Shut heads always turn and say do a 360...

Again, some people may not have the time or place to build from scratch.

Why you don’t answer the question and help a brother out is beyond me and even more so from a BIBLE THUMPING fella like yourself.

If you ain’t helping the OP to hop up his brothers 318 and do so without mentioning what ridiculing or sign sing out the reasons why, to a larger engine size, then;

YOUR JUST PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!!

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Rumblefish. I get a lot of this when asking questions. It would be nice if he had the $10k upfront that he wanted to spend but he doesn't. I guess we should just leave the 318 as is and not enjoy it at all. I agree in a perfect world we would start with a larger displacement engine. But he wants to see what the 318 will do. I mean why mess with a 360. My as well go get a 440 and stuff that in there!