I ported 318 675 heads, I guess I'm wrong to do so, because I wasted my time according to some of the old farts of wisdom. I'm not building a race engine, it's just a peppy grocery getter. I have another set of of 675 heads, maybe I should waste my time on those too. Maybe just a quick worthless touch up to clean off the nasty casting slag just too waste some time. Or maybe I should just leave the ugly booger casting alone?
Ok, to be realistic, we just want to learn and have fun. Some people use their time to do some things different than others and that is fine. Have realistic goals and do it because you want to. Porting Mopar 675, or Ford E7TE door stoppers is fine if the goal is realistic and you don't expect to have a track monster on a low budget. A peppy runabout is more realistic and if that's the goal, that's fine. However, anyone can build whatever they want and spend whatever they want and that's fine as long as they realize the bad investment they are making. Lol, it's not my money.
Alright, now my take on the "Mission Impossible" nonsense. It's doomed. No really, this project went so far off the rails, I don't even consider it a "Mission Impossible" project anymore. It would have been very interesting to see what could be done with 318 using only stock factory or stock replacement parts. Practical? No. Curious? Yes. DV went off the rails and decided that he was going to use non factory or non factory replacement parts which would just make it a modified 318 with some bolt on goodies. That's far from the original objective. Really I and many others have put together a 318 that's more true than his off the rails idea. This created issues with UTG. From the beginning this project was supposed to be a group effort with UTG who had the original idea, DV and Andy. Then the other guy started coming in which would be Servedio. UTG who was not getting updated or involved in the decision making and felt like things were going off the rails, which they were and respectfully backed out of the project. "Mission Impossible" was UTG's idea so I'm sure he felt frustrated.
On to other M.I. problems. DV pretty much let Servedio do most of the R and D work and they had an idea of what could work in theory. The problem is that other than the heads and manifolds, the parts were never completely ready so the engine could be assembled. In fact the lower end parts that UTG gave them were "unusable" according to DV and Andy. They had a set pactice budget I'll call it because that doesn't include the experiments, and UTG just pretty much dropped off junk that was just good for R and D, so they needed everything for the bottom end. Machine shop work is not cheap and I do believe was factored into the budget, so unacceptable junk would require too much machine work to stay in budget.
In the end this whole group project was a group disaster that eventually fizzled out and now has maybe come back again with Andy from Unity Motorsports Garage in charge. So far not much has happened in five months and has been a huge disappointment for the viewers. I am sure the original intent is no longer there even if it ever gets finished. The Mission Impossible 318 project is tarnished, even if they go back to the original goal, it's a disaster no matter what the outcome is.
