I've been thinking about playing with the 318 in my new car. The engine is fresh from being rebuilt. 30 over with 360 heads mopar intake. Nothin crazy. Horsepower or NOS even turbo. Post your ET and specs.

mine is faster than walking.

Mine had trouble breaking the tires loose on water! I installed 360 heads on it, but that lowered the compression due to the larger combustion chambers. I tried to offset that problem with a cam with a wide lobe separation, but the results were disappointing. It had a thermoquad carb from a 340, and 2.25'' dual exhaust flowing from stock 360 exhaust manifolds. Never timed it at a drag strip, nor did I street raced it. It was just a street beater built from spare parts that got me to and from my job, and it never left me stranded. With that cam and the low compression, I wish that I had a spare turbo or supercharger to try on it, but I digress.

I ran just one pass with my 318 tow vehicle,19.72 in the 1/4 mile . Trunk was full of tools and a floor jack. Didn't even spin the tires.

I had a bone stock 69 2 door coronet 318 2bbl car (A/C, PS,PB). It had duels and an open 3.23 rear. I used 93 octane, advanced the timing to 38* (no vac advance and ran just the base plate car ran 15.60 alllll day. (In Drive)

With a neck brace on I presume!

There was a white 65 A100 van running around San Jose back in the mid 70's with warmed over 318 in it that turned 13.90's at Fremont. It was a stock short block with a 340 top end, headers, auto with 3.91's in the back. Can't remember what cam was in it but the guy had a lot of fun blowing off some GTO'S and 396 Chevelles. LOL

M/P computer,Dynomax 2 1/2" single exhaust and 3.55 sure grip,will run in upper 13.00's.

Which 318 are you referring to? There were 3 versions, Poly 318, LA 318 and Magnum 318.
A poly and the LA versions would run pretty hard with a 4 barrel carb, dual exhaust and a small cam, in a lighter weight car, had to keep the rpm under 4500 or the heads ran out of air. The 340/360 heads and a slightly bigger cam would get you past 5500, but cost you a little throttle response.

The old Mopar Performance Books listed mods needed to take a LA 318 down to 10 sec quarters, weather or not that was actually possible, I don't know, and there probably wasn't much 318 left.

Seat of the pants dyno and local street racing made my LA 318 with 318 heads, a big cam, and a 4 speed a local street car to beat, on Main St, in our little burg, for a couple of summers. It sure made a lot of GM & Ford guys mad, getting beat by a 318 was like rubbing salt into the wounds. Gene

Never really quick or fast but my 318 coronet would cruise at 80 all day long in my coronet.

I have a set of small chambered 318 heads on a crate short block 360 and it has ton of useable torque for the Plymouth Pick Up.

Best thing I've ever done to wake up a 318 was to install a Edelbrock D4B intake and headers, this is the 4 bbl intake w the 318 sized ports that matches the heads....great throttle response and performance will easily spin the tires on my Challenger vert.

Had a 69 318 in my Dart with stock 318 heads, dual plane edelbrock LD4B intake with headers, 455 lift DC cam with 3.55's and a stick in a Dart that was 3400 lbs and it would run 14.1 on street tires at E-town. Easy 13 second car all day long with slicks or drag radials.

I knew a guy with a pretty rowdy 318 that ran high 11's but the car was stripped and very light. Mine was a full street car.

Use the small port heads to keep the port velocity up, they work plenty good to 5000 rpm or so. Or better yet upgrade to a magnum 5.2 for cheap and take advantage of the better ports and roller cams.

Edit- Just pulled up the timeslips- Was running 95-96 mph with a best short time of 2.30. Easy 13's with some slicks.

70 Dart, dead stock 318 short block, 484" Purple shaft, 360 stock heads, intake, TQ, headers 2 1/2" exhaust, 4.10, street tires. Would run 14.0@101 all day. Too much cam with no compression. Helped it hook with street tires (non sticky).
Doug

I was gonna switch my roller 318 to flat tappet but I dont think I want to give up the roller cam.scratchin,did you have to cut your valve guides to run a 485 lift cam?

Seems that if you wants a stock short block 318 to perform you need gears and converter

Don(B3422W5) has an 11 second 318 with no power adders in his Duster.