Author: stroker mike

I’m running stock early 9.2 cr pistons in my 318, is a 150 shot too much? The face of these pistons seems pretty thick…

I had my new M1 sitting on the bench last night, and looked closely at it, and sitting next to my old strip dominator I started to notice the differences in them, such as the depth of the plenum in the M1 is almost twice that of the SD, and the ports of the Sd are less than an inch wide, the…

I got ahold of a running 318 to swap into my duster today, it’s from an 84 dippy and was a security guard car at Great America. The car was wrecked and the engine saved, I called about it and the guy said it has a four barrel, so it has to be a service vehicle. I researched and learned about the…

Hey, it’s been a minute since I posted here, not since I had to sell my dart. I miss that car! But now I have just bought a 73 Duster and I’m getting started again. Here’s a pic!
So, it has a 1970 318 in it right now, and I have these things going now at this point this is where I’m at:
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I am building a 318 with 308 heads and am tryiing to pick a cam. I ran camquest and it suggested a thumpr #20-600-4, or a 275DEH. I was running a Hughes 1326 whiplash series but it fell off at about 5500. I want it to pull to 6000. One person suggested the thumpr might be too much cam for a “teen”….