Junkyard 318 Hits The Dyno!!! Budget HP tricks tested. 1968 Dodge Dart GT 

I owned a 1968 Plymouth fury 3 back around 1990. I had a bs job at a gas station. The little old lady that owned the car died and the son dropped off the car at the gas station and said first $500 takes it. The owner of the gas station told me not to buy it. He wanted the manager to get the fury. Well screw them I bought the fury and got fired. It was worth it,the fury had a 318 in it and I was impressed with the power of that 318. The 318 is a damn fine motor

Great job! The torque is very impressive. I remember driving those 318s back in the day, and you’re doing a great build.

My first car was a 1072 Plymouth Duster. Hemi Orange with the blacked out hood and strobe stripes up the center. Long black stripes down the sides. Just like a 340 Duster, but no 340 on it. It had a Valiant grille and rally wheels with white letter tires. It came with a 318 and 3 speed on the floor. 8 3/4 3:23 gears.This was 1976 and the car was fresh as when new. All a 17 year old would want.I was a Junior in High School and street racing in the South was alive and well. But I was just a little underpowered for any attempt at being the quickest at school. That soon changed with my new friendship with another gearhead. We took to getting all the parts needed to make a street screamer out of this 318. I purchased some 340 heads and had them massaged by the local speed shop. Also installed a dual point disttribtor and edlbrock dual plane intake. Accel super coil with matching 9mm yellow wires. A pair of cyclone long tube headers and turbo mufflers. Also had to add the Duster chrome tailpipes. Carter 750 off a 440 rejetted. Black crinkle valve covers and a cam dynamics high lift and long duration cam. Heavy duty clutch. I don`t know how much hp it made or torque. But I can tell you it went undefeated at school and out ran only twice on the street. I did not run every car that challenged me but I was street smart enough to know cars that were the real deal. This little 318 moved that Duster and I was always accused of lying about the engine size. Made a few dollars with it and only lost money twice. The little Orange Duster had quite a reputation around the schools of the area as being pretty quick. There were quite a few quicker cars in town for sure. But I had better sense than to lose money to them. I miss those times and that little Duster. But I have my 70 Challenger and 70 GTX to dull the pain😁. Thanks for the video and never underestimate the power of a 318. You proved just how much it improves with the right parts.

The 318 is the best Mopar engine ever

Very impressive number on that 318

Great score on the Dart! Shows that cool iron is still out there waiting for guys like ourselves. For first time on the dyno she made good power too. Congratulations

I had a chance to buy a 71 Dodge Dart with a 318 ( back in 1980) for $400 . It had a broken steering control arm and cracked / leaking steering gear box . I was too young and didn’t have the money or know how to fix it back then and so I passed on it to buy a different car . It was a clean car , no rust , straight body and ran perfect . Boy I wish I could go back in time now ! Those 318’s are strong engines , very buildable !

Barona - my local track. Beautiful location, and awesome Mopar. I'm putting a 360 together for my '67 Charger. Hopefully, we'll get to run it up there next year.

Kudos - Love Anything Mopar! I'm subscribed. I own a 1972 Road Runner - 440/4MT and I have had it for over 36 years! ☮

Very very impressive! Good work 👍

My 1999 360 in my Duster. Rebuilt with KB flat tops, fresh magnum heads, smallest Roller thumpr cam, headers, 2800 stahl converter, and 3.91 gear. - Runs 12.2 in the quarter. About 400hp. Im happy. Not a lot of money, for a lot of thrill.

Dude thats not to Shabby at all! Good Work!

probably half second or better in the rear gear and converter! 2 fairly easy swaps to get you in the 8's. pretty good power for that combo, congrats!

So here I am sitting at the computer with Desktop Dyno and playing with cam number I found online. The 318 Magnum cam is a 251/264 with a .432/.432" lift. What did Crower re-grind it to?

Geez good HP! I own a 1980 Chrysler here in Australia (on my channel) With the famous 318. I chose a comp 268h cam,edelbrock performer intake,500 avs eddy carby. Hei ignition with a full 2.5 inch exhaust and extractors. Diff ratio was changed to 3:45. The machine shop installed heavier springs on the otherwise stock heads. Mine made 220hp on the dyno. Certainly by far better than when it was all completely stock. Yours goes and sounds awesome mate. Great engines.

Hey that’s not bad!! Pretty good numbers for the ole girl!

Well, you have torque on your side! 👍🤟🤟

not worried about the peak power but at the low RPM that you reached peak power... Great Channel and vids! I love budget projects, even MOPAR stuff! I am a BBC guy but I do have pals with Mopar. These days, Any and all old-school beats all the Tuner and Laptop guys!

Awesome! I just bought a '72 Dart 318 car for a similar price. I put the Edelbrock 650 avs2 in it. Still need some work but I'm hoping to be making similar power soon!

Cool dart that was good power for $$$ spent

Hey, if you're in San Diego, hit me up. Former A Body guy, B Vanner now. Loved Mopars since I was a kid watching Dukes. Currently have a Street 360 in my SWB B100 but plan on swapping a 410/360 Stroker hopefully this year. East County Mopar Sam Kid/ B Vanner.

That’s not bad at all! For comparison sake, my carbed 5.9 magnum with a bone stock bottom end, bad timing curve and less than idle tune made 198 hp at 4,400rpm and 250 lb ft at 3600rpm to the wheels. New timing curve, better headers, speedmaster heads and regroups cam should really wake mine up as well!

Putting together a low budget 318 for my 70 Dodge truck. Going to have the rebuild an engine. I have 3, one has a flat cam and a pile of miles, one is already.030 over and has a lot of rust in the cylinders from sitting, and the last one is stock bore but worn out to the point that it for sure will need at least .030 over. The plan is to put a stock 2 barrel back on it for break in and then switch over to the Edelbrock TR5 tunnel ram intake with a pair of Edelbrock 500 CFM AVS2 carbs on it. Going with progressive linkage and using the rear carb as the primary. I have the tall open plenum so lean condition shouldn't be a problem. I might have to cut a hole in the hood to clear all of this and install a scoop. I was looking at the shaker design used on the Cuda.

Nice! Should be producing right at 1hp per ci.

Good numbers for sure. Better breathing heads would really wake this up though.

I built a 318 in similar fashion with bolt ons and a cam, hooker long tube headers, msd coil.... Comp xe268h and later model swirl port small valve heads, 1986-91 and this old motor pulls decent with a 3000 stall converter. About 2k investment into a ratty but free from the ex girlfriend 72 Scamp makes a nice sleeper. Go Mopar!

About a 14.70 quarter mile ET.

Little turbo and that thing will be smokin

Same car that I have.

253 hp. Nice. What’s that in Flywheel hp for us old guys?

Good running 318, have you decided if you would sell 400 block

Isn't that about the stock output of a 383 2bbl without all that big block pork?

Is that Jonny Mopar in the left lane having problems ?

The rise of the cheap V8 engine and the 318 Magnum is the affordable for everyone

Stock there rated at 235 hp and 300tq so thats a very respectable number

Are you on fabo ?

What trans are you running?

Whats the specs on your cam?

289

I dont claim to know how much it cost you to have the stock cam reground, but I would wager it wouldn't have cost you any more money to simply buy a Comp cam that would perform far vetter than any regeound oem cam could dream of

Stock Honda accord 2.0 runs faster than this. Bigger fuel injectors jack up the boost accord hits 8sec flat on 1/8.

About 300 crank horsepower. Good work!

i just got a 1987 van with a 318 and im loving your content! mopar or no car!