The Mighty 318 Part II ….. LOL

i'm putting together a 318 for the 58 (nash) rambler american gasser i'm building. so far i have an early 340 cam with roller timing set, 2.02 340 j heads (1.88 360 heads would do), weiand stealth intake (performer rpm from another mother, lol), 770 holley street avenger, fenderwell headers and kb399 pistons. i chose the 399's over the 167's as they have a small 'dome' to recoup some of the compression lost with the bigger combustion chambers of the 340/360 heads. both pistons give a decent jump in compression with their increase in compression height so.... either way even just using the 340/360 heads on a stock bottom end will improve hp, it's been done many times so a proven mod'. oh, and i have a 2500 stall converter for the 904 trans' and 3.73 gears in the exploder rear end which'll both help me too.
neil.