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I hope you don't think that's what I was implying in my post. I was not I was simply giving him my experience. I'm all for building a budget 318 but in my situation the cost was gonna be the same 318 vs 360. So for my budget it was the best bang for my buck to go with the 360. I was in no way...

I got mine off a 2001 ram 1500. Had to do a little work on the drivers side to get the downpipe to fit right but it fits using a floor shifter. Now a column shifter I dont believe it would idk tho it would be tight. I actually ended up using the factory downpipe from the same ram and cutting and...

In my experience nothing "performance" Is ever cheap. Its a never ending rabbit (money) hole. I started off similar to you was going to take an 80s 318 and clean it up regasket it add a small cam a 4 bbl intake headers etc. Well I pulled the heads to find that it needed to be overbored pulled...

Ok gotcha lol I was thinking about the fbo module I just don't want to spend 300 bucks on it. I'm like you im cheap lol well not so much cheap but poor haha if I had it I'd spend it I just don't have it! Haha

Im gonna undead this thread. @318willrun Did you ever solve this? I'm looking for a cheaper than the fbo module alternative to a rev limiter also. Is there anyway to wire one in to the factory mopar ecu? I don't wanna go with a hei swap I'd rather leave my factory ecu ans dissy alone. I did a...

That orda be real stout!

What cc are the heads to get 11.5 with flat tops? With that kinda compression you gotta get quench or run race fuel.

Yep I got one I pulled out of a ram with over 200k miles the heads are cracked but the cylinder walls not so much as a lip at the top. Wonder why the magnums wear so much better than the la's? I have a la 318 with low miles like 87k iirc and it was pretty bad! Bad enough I broke all the rings...

This is a cool thread! Thanks Rob! I've had a 318 planned for quite a while now idk if I'll ever get around to building it but I got mostly everything to do it minus pistons and intake. I can't remember all the numbers I got them wrote down somewhere but it goes something like this, 318 la block...

The rods im not sure about but rusty is right on about the pistons. They have a different compression height. If I recall they are shorter. So they would be lower compression in an LA

Yea its nuts. It makes me mad! Lol luckily I bought alot of stuff for future projects here some new some used but I have alot of stuff saved so hopefully I won't have to buy to much.

Prices have tripled just since I built mine in 2020! I was looking at starters the other day I was gonna go ahead and grab one for my challenger project. The exact same ebay mini starter I bought in January 2021 for 38 bucks is now 97! I couldn't believe it!

My 2 cents! If your using stock components use a stockish cam. There are alot cams out there for cheap like the RV cams and such that are very close to stock. One of the biggest performance killers is over cammed. Best case is to find an original 360 cam they are just a touch bigger but you can...

Update! I finally got around to messing with it again today. I pulled the distributor replaced the springs with 2 light ones to get the all in sooner. And closed the gap on the mechanical advance to limit the total. Now im all in by 2600 I set the initial at 20 and the total came out at 34 it...

You you just use one o2 sensor or two one for each bank?

Yea that is true. I'm gonna look into them.

Sounds expensive haha

Hell I can't remember either hahaha. It was somewhere in the 10.25-10.5 range the cylinder pressure was 175 I do remember that

I just pulled all the plugs I didn't see anything unusual other that the sooty black. The insulators looked like a pretty good color kinda copper Tanish color I should have took pictures the ground strap was too sooty to see any timing lines I couldn't see anything on them other than black soot.

14 initial 34 total without va, about 51 total with va

Im gonna bump it ups some and dial total down. I think I'm gonna change springs again too, to get it all in sooner

Yea I plan on replacing them very soon. I think I may go with ngks this time alot of guys seem to use them gotta be a for a reason.

Thank you thata awesome! I'll save that to my phone for future reference. Looks like ngk 5 is right on par with my champion 12s

My plugs are champion Rc12yc, so a 12 heat range. Not sure how they compare to ngk heat range scale?

Oh the ignition system is a stock factory mopar ecu with the mp orange box

I do have sooty plugs I pulled them out and cleaned them the other day when I was checking the timing again I'll have to check the heat range they are champions

Thanks bud! I'm glad you chimed in! I have not noticed any backfiring at 3/4 throttle. I will test some more on my next outing and pay more attention to it. I have noticed some backfire when you rev it up in park. I'll test it some more as is and then tighten the air flap and test some more and...

I don't have a tool. I wish I did. I will use two screws drivers I did know how to bent that tab to adjust the flap!

Ok so I was thinking about it backwards. It needs to open less to make it richer! That makes sense. Do you think that's the problem?

@Dana Is really good as well with the ole TQs!