Adding horse power
Wrong. But hey, do what you wanna do. This way, you'll learn the old school way like alot of us "Pre-internet" guys did and then you can say, "Been there done that" and know not only why, but how it actually feels to drive it that way and the pains it takes to get it as good as possible.
Ahh yes, those were the days........
I think you should put the damn thing on, and see what happens! I mean, whats a set of gaskets, really. I cant imagine it having that much less power on a stock 318, LOL, but the mileage? BOOOHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!
I put a dual quad tunel ram on my truck once. LOL, it was a built out of parts for fun flat top 360, with an old Wolverine blue racer (remember those?) 284/484, 112C-line cam, headers, and TWO 600 Edelbrocks.
It worked GREAT! LOL Just couldn't drive it in the rain, humid weather under like 60F, or the carbs would ice up so bad it would wash the cylinders with gas, and the throttle would get sticky......
Then I put a 318 together with std pistons, .030 overbore, and no oil rings, trying for less drag..... Ran pretty good, and you could follow the "bread crumb" oil spot trail home, so getting lost wasn't an issue. Kept the mosquito's at bay too.......
Then, I was like 12, I had a Torino, and I decided to turn the rear end upside down instead of moving the perches to jack the back up...... :angry7:
Once took the divider between the two ports out of a old offey 360# manifold, and all the way past the pinch on a set of 675 heads. Ran interesting.... and real hard to start, LOL.....
Yes, there are a lot of us here that have tried things that didn't work, me probably being more outside the box than others, so when someone like Rumble, (Who I agree with 97.335% of he time) says, no, it's not going to work very good...... It probably wont.
Now, if it was one of those old cool OFFEY small runner manifolds, it would actually make some neat torque, at like 3500rpm. But it ain't.
Thats all............