1987 318 LA

The single best thing you can do to a 318 is put a good piston in it, and have the machine shop deck em to zero. That puts you above what most other people do with them. I’d use a roller cam but not the stock one. Find a magnum engine at the junkyard and take Cam, lifters, lifter spider, and hardware. Send the cam to Oregon for a regrind to his 218-224 cam and put it together with the 302 heads, performer intake, and a 600 carb of your choice. That’ll crush the stock HP/TQ rating. You’ll probably be close to 240-260 hp.