With factory type gears(often 2.76s) and stall (occasionally as high as 2000, but more often closer to 1800), it's still gonna be a bit of a disappointment below 20/25 mph, but you can deal with that later as you see fit.
If factory stall is 1800-2000 rpm not saying cam effect under 2000 rpm wouldn't be important but less so especially under 1500 rpm?
If so the 3 builds I could find with xe262h xe268h and xe275hl all make 190-200 hp at 3000 rpm 25-35 hp over stock 164 hp @ 3000 rpm and a few 360 builds I looked at made 200-230 at 3000 rpm so sounds like these cam giving a 318 most of what is available at that rpm. So 3000 rpm above these cams are just all gain over stock and I would even assume from the stock 137 hp @ 2500 rpm they would be tie or gain as well.
So the important rpm band with stock stall and cams would be 1500-2500 rpm?
and 1500-2000 rpm would be heavily helped by the stall so the dead spot if there is one would be 2000-2500 rpm?
Obviously anyone using a cam like Xe275hl would be using an aftermarket stall, Xe268h recommends one with a 318 and probably get away with stock stall, how much power could that cam be down from the stock 318 2bbl's 112 hp @ 2000 rpm. And the xe262h should no problem even though people should be adding stall to any performance engine. Can't see where the danger is when adding a mild cam to a 318 is it the lack of CR slowing the engines acceleration rate?
