Inputs on a home built 318 for red light to red light fun

RustyRatRod said

I agree with all that.....but you know how crazy about quench people are these days.

I will say this. In the case of the Ford 400, they kept going the WRONG WAY trying to combat detonation. Lower and lower with the compression, when had they built a zero deck closed chamber head 400, similar to the Cleveland closed chamber engine, they'd have solved the problem.

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Exactly. They had the same issue on the 1988 and maybe a few years earlier 460’s. No compression, retarded cam timing (makes more heat and less power), retarded ignition timing (same thing…less power and makes more heat) all for emissions and such. 88 was the last year for the carb on Ford trucks (IIRC) and they were a miserable ***** to try and tune.

And today, we don’t even check for emissions that they were trying to reduce back then. Those things were a giant PITA.