Thanks for the update. 318 is a great little motor. My Old Man is a mechanic from back in his day and loved Chrysler stuff. Said it was superior quality to GM and Ford of the day.

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

It’s certainly built strong!

Killer mate looking forward to see it running

Thanks for the update on the 318 looking forward to seeing the vg hardtop back on the road.👌

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

That needs the same treatment! Haha

I have a mild 318 in my CM. I had a mechanic do most of the work on mine as I’m not to savvy in that department! Upon start up of mine with the new camshaft (comp 268H) he noticed that there was no oil feed on the right hand side rockers! We discovered that the machine shop that installed the new bearings and camshaft did not check tolerances and the camshaft was a wee bit to tight and it spun a bearing blocking off the oil feed to the rockers! So the engine had to come back out again and he had to linish the cam to get it fit properly. And voila, engine now has oil everywhere like it should. My heads and bottom end are stock,we added an edelbrock performer intake,edelbrock 500 carby,hei ignition and a full 2.5 inch exhaust with extractors. The engine is quite responsive now as opposed to the wheezy little two barrel it was. Had my 727 trans rebuilt with a 2500 stally and also saved up and changed the diff to a harrop truetrack with a 3.45 ratio. It does go quite well considering it made only 210 hp on the carby dyno. I sometimes feel that my carby should have been a bit bigger but it does run great with a bit of a lope to it now. Mopar 🤘

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

Yeah awesome! It sounds like we’ll have a very similar outcome! Cheers

@Tk-ou9ec

3 ай бұрын

@@TheIronEmpire great engines I reckon

Another great video mate 🤙🏽

Great update, looking forward to its first start up 🎉

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

Scary business

I remember the episode you got the replacement crank and to now having it in the motor you must be stoked!!! Crow are "Legends" I got a cam from them up here in Noosa and it was on a Monday morning that I ordered it and it was here on the Wednesday afternoon at 4.30!! I couldn't believe it!! Anyways, have a great weekend with Andrea and both of you can take the rest of the day off 🇦🇺

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

Cheers mate!

Great work Mark, and you are getting there✌

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

👍🏼

Always learning/reinforcing what I think I Know. Cannot wait to see how she goes.

Mint execution. Curious to know why the oil filter was left in throughout the process.

Good job man

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

🙌🏼

Nice work mate 👍,your videos make me want to go get a car and fix it up for a nice cruiser. For me and my wife and daughter. Love your content and keep up the great work you do.

@stephenwardle9268

3 ай бұрын

Great, cue the crappy music and not finishing what ever your working on.

I dont want to be that guy but the "ridge" is just the factory bore. You would only need to remove it before removing the pistons to prevent rings catching at taking a land off the pistons. Probably need to internal mic those bores at 3 heights an x/y direction to check for round and taper. Ball hones would not be the preference here over a stone hone.

Good job 👍👍

@TheIronEmpire

3 ай бұрын

💪🏼

Be careful with those type engine stands. I’ve had one tip over.

318s are great, but they have a woefully low compression ratio with stock style pistons. Any mods will be relatively ineffective unless the CR is addressed.

@Tk-ou9ec

3 ай бұрын

Not true! I also have a mild 318 with only cam,intake,carby,ignition and full exhaust upgrades. This made a big difference to how my car performs now! And yes I was on a budget as well. To do heads and pistons also was easily another 5-6,000 and I simply couldn’t afford it.

@NZMOPAR

3 ай бұрын

71 318 should be 8.6 to 1 comp so its not high but a cam and a little port work will help HP for sure anything to help pull air in and keep the air speed up in the intake will make a big difference

@user-du8cs8sn2v

3 ай бұрын

@@Tk-ou9ec well it is true. If you stick a reasonable cam in something with mid 8's compression, you are leaving lot on the table...

@jaycharger72

3 ай бұрын

True , ive seen people alloy head them big cam and holley with stock CR and get average results

Mark (bit rushed this ep), gr8 ep though!!! loved how you saved this engine. Yes Chrysler/Mopar v8;s do well. Gr8 to see variety. which you certainly provide. Thumbs up. Cheers n.b. When are you gonna update the wanna be???(sand man ute. time to finish it)

A ball hone doesn’t sound forgiving at all 😬😜

Are you going to redo the paint job on that engine?

Hey mark what do u do for paid work

Never seen a ridge remover b4 is there a danger of going to far and oversizeing the cutting area and if so wats the fix?

@NZMOPAR

3 ай бұрын

if you go to far you would have to bore the block over size

Had a VC with a low comp 225 ,drove it until i found an ol dodge phoenix in a wreckers with a v8 and swapped it all over ,odd motor as it was a 318 Fireball ,is that a performance motor ?

@Tk-ou9ec

3 ай бұрын

From my understanding the Fireball engine just had a different carby on it which was jetted better than other two barrel carbys. I’m sure someone else will chime in with more knowledge on this matter.

@NZMOPAR

3 ай бұрын

on the block it will tell you the year in the casting form there you can see what you have as a base

Could you get $20,000 for it? Probably if you decide to enjoy it for a couple of years first.

Breaking out the ridge remover!, been there many times!