Show Us Your 318 Combos

Here's one I've been piecing together over the last few months.

Stock block, unbored, stock rods, original pistons at their factory deck height, staying in the car as I bolt stuff to it. Not sure how far down in the hole the slugs are, hoping for no more than .060. I plan to measure when the stock heads come off. Pro Form sells chaep engine building tools.

So far I have an LD4B intake. Planning on running the heat block-off gaskets with it.

I have a set of untouched '302' heads. Debating on picking up a set of 360 heads and having them milled to get the chambers at the right volume for the 318. That seems to be the big debate on 318's besides intakes, which heads. If you want a hot rod 318 with factory iron heads, it's either a set of ported 302's with larger 1.88/1.60 valves installed or 360 heads milled .040" or so.

Basically decided on the Mopar .450 cam. Guys seem to knock the Mopar cams for being old and seem to favor more 'modern' designs, but they work regardless. The other one I considered was the Hughes Whiplash. Both cams made very similar power on Desktop Dyno 2K.

Carb will be either a Carter 9636 or Holley 4160/1850. I like the Holley, you can convert it to a 4150 pretty easily. Quick Fuel sells a cool adjustable secondary spring kit.

Exhaust will be cheapo Summit headers into a full dual exhaust with an h-pipe that's already on the car.

Removed A/C and power steering and went to single-groove pullies.

I'm actually planning on setting up my chassis before I throw a lot of power at it, thus my mild combo (read = cheap). I have a 4.10 rear gear and just purchased a low gear set for my 904. The low gear effectively puts my final drive in first gear to an equivalent of approx. 4.56. Plans for a better convetrer are in the works too, probably just a Mopar 166K for now which stalls somewhere around 2,350 or so. Hopefully I can workout a set of
Cal Tracs this winter too. Frame connectors are obvious.

Hope this stuff will help propel my 318-equipt Dart into the 13's.

Good info here: http://www.buschis-place.de/mopar_318cui_performance.htm