Good video. ....he bugs me the way he talks.....but good video!
Jeff
Stroke a 318 and get 390. Stroke a 360 and get a 408. Not a big difference there. LOL
- Good point he made is the 318 is very close to dimensions as the beloved 5.3 LS, yet most look past the 318
- One thing (and most disagree with me) is I'm a little quicker to pull the trigger on putting 360 heads on a 318. The times I've done it (cutting the heads .040), I've always had noticeable seat-of-the-pants gains
No doubt! Cross bolted mains and the LS heads make it what it is. Roller cam too.The LS has decades better design then the 318, just like the Gen III Hemi.
No doubt the 318 is one of the best engines to come out of Detroit but the technology in the new engines is hard to beat.
If you are going to compare an LS to a 318 then why stop there? In other words I don't get the relevanceThe LS has decades better design then the 318, just like the Gen III Hemi.
No doubt the 318 is one of the best engines to come out of Detroit but the technology in the new engines is hard to beat.
No comparison between a 318 and a LS. Just like a Gen 3.If you are going to compare an LS to a 318 then why stop there? In other words I don't get the relevance
I don't think UTG's point was how "tough" and how much HP the stock block can handle. I think it was bore to bore, stroke to stroke, the 5.2 and 5.3 are very close. Folks LS 5.3 swap, but without turbos or major upgrades, they don't perform exceptionally well but people are happy about it. So why not the 318 if big HP isn't the goal... I think that was UTG's pointThe LS has decades better design then the 318, just like the Gen III Hemi.
No doubt the 318 is one of the best engines to come out of Detroit but the technology in the new engines is hard to beat.
Right. I beat a LS 5.3 in stock form easily with my 318 Duster... wasn't even a race!!!No comparison between a 318 and a LS. Just like a Gen 3.
Years ago at the time it was cheaper to do the 410 Stroker then the 390. There was so much out there for doing a 360 there was more expensive to buy the 318 Pistons to do a stroker. When my machine shop offered me a 360 block for a hundred and fifty bucks it became a no-brainer at that time to get the extra 20 cubic inches for basically less... "At the time".. I haven't done any research as of late on the subject though...Stroke a 318 and get 390. Stroke a 360 and get a 408. Not a big difference there. LOL
Good video. ....he bugs me the way he talks.....but good video!
Jeff
Dang skippy!New LS and Hemi are great cause there heads flow as much as race engines stock which just leaves cam change to get the power out of them, but throw on similar heads on 273/318/340/360 and you can make the same power.
And you can compare modern engines, the main advancements allow performance and low speed driveability eg.. OD, Multiple displacements, variable timing. None of those allow more power than what we hot rodders can do just we got to compromise more. New LS and Hemi are great cause there heads flow as much as race engines stock which just leaves cam change to get the power out of them, but throw on similar heads on 273/318/340/360 and you can make the same power.
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This guy is far from a expert too. He's just pissy that he only has 222 subscribers and Uncle Tony has 168,000.Ok, so fill me in. How did UT screw over lamb chop? Also, evidently the guy has never heard of startling line ratio. A close ratio gear box isn’t always a good thing.