winter time all ready ?

The question was what can I do to hop up a 318. The car is a convertible so it probably a a nice cruiser not a street strip car. a 4" stroker crank isnt need to make a great cruiser with a little pep.

I would add a set of EQ Magnum heads with the LA intake bolts. Then you can use a stock iron TQ intake and keep that factory look. Look for a 72 340 T.Q.

For a cam I would use something like the XE256 or XE262 from Comp cams. For rockers you can either use stock pieces or small block chevy arms work too,

To use stock exhaust manifolds with the magnum heads you may need to fab up some adapters or maybe use a set of header flanges to fix the port mis match.


The other way to go is find a set of 302 casting heads and have a good valve job done and maybe a little port clean up.

add some 355 gears and go. It wont be blistering fast but it will be a big step up from the stock 2bbl 318 and all of your brackets and A/C stuff will bolt right up.