318 upgrades for cheap????
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Recently bought my wife a grand chherokee with a 318, and was wondering what upgrades you guys recommend that are easy on my ever shrinking wallet. I just put a 40 series flowmaster on, and it has just had a general tune up, plugs wires cap rotor, etc... Any ideas, or suggestions would be appreciated!!
1976 CREW CAB 3/4 ton 4x4 Factory plow and ex Airforce Truck
1986 Power Ram 400hp 360 6" lift
1970 Plymouth custom suburban 318 4" drop
1996 Dodge 1500 360 4wd 3" lift
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Re: 318 upgrades for cheap????
[Re: swepty]
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A good plan is to attack the worst(most restricted) area 1st which would be the exhaust(add headers & a mandrel 2&1/2" system)(always thinking of the engine in terms of an airpump). If it has a carter 2bbl You can even use the pri jets in an eddy strip kit to rejet it. Better yet obtain an edel performer alum intake which does have a spreadbore carb pattern(they're cheap) with a demonsizler prepped thermoquad. EDIT I forgot about recurving the dist/timing also
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Re: 318 upgrades for cheap????
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I'd do a high flow cat, can be bought for 50-75 and on my truck I picked up 2mpg. A could air intake would help some too and like mentioned can be found cheap. Otherwise your going to pay a good bit to get anything else done.
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Re: 318 upgrades for cheap????
[Re: swepty]
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03/03/09 12:57 PM
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I put underdrive pulleys on my Lincoln 5.0 and it made a noticeable difference.
Homemade cold-air pipe helped me also. On a mass airflow system the meter might be a bigger restrictor than the airbox, so look it over before spending $$$.
There might be some Bosch Type 2-3 (?) injectors that give better atomization and therefore more MPG and power. Search Ebay for cleaned injectors and you'll eventually stumble on the info. 'Cleaned' injectors are pretty reasonably priced ($80-100 for 8 of them).
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Re: 318 upgrades for cheap????
[Re: dart4forte]
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03/04/09 07:05 PM
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I have already switched and put synthetic in all.
I just want to do what i can that is fairly subtle, so that when I drive it, it's what I want. Don't want to be out done by those import suv junks while at a stop light!!!
1976 CREW CAB 3/4 ton 4x4 Factory plow and ex Airforce Truck
1986 Power Ram 400hp 360 6" lift
1970 Plymouth custom suburban 318 4" drop
1996 Dodge 1500 360 4wd 3" lift
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Re: 318 upgrades for cheap????
[Re: Mr.Yuck]
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It is a 96. I would definately be interested in a mp computer, if any one knows of one that will work let me know.
1976 CREW CAB 3/4 ton 4x4 Factory plow and ex Airforce Truck
1986 Power Ram 400hp 360 6" lift
1970 Plymouth custom suburban 318 4" drop
1996 Dodge 1500 360 4wd 3" lift
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