318 performance

Oct/junky;

Now that is a great peice of advice! That should be copied and pasted on a freaking sticky!

XfacturX; Is there a certain time in the 1/4 mile you wish to run? Or just a basic street strip ride?
Is a tare down and rebuild in the future?

For $1200, if your bottm end is in good shape, the above mentions are very good. I did the Jegs 2-1/2 exhaust kit and headers for a grand total of less than $300 if you use the cheapy Jegs/Summit headers rather than Hooker/Headman headers.

Don't spend on heads yet! Stockers can go preety far.

The biggest key to this all is not only your taget goal but gears and stall converter. You'll gain the biggest from a higher stall converter that'll match the future cam, but also the rear gears (Which should also be good for the future build) wiull really add to the get up and go factor.

I used (The now defuncted) Crane cam @ 216/228-.454/.480/112 cam in my Duster with 3.21 gears and stock tires. (The 318/LU 904 from a 79 car.) With a Edel. intake, D4B and a 600 Carter ran 15.14 @ 89. Which isn't a screamer, but spirted.
Largely untuned on a cold day. Not to bad.