ok guys i need your opinion on a cam, I'm building a mild 318 i have slightly ported and polished heads, they've also been milled a little bit I'm not sure on the exact specs, I'm running an msd ignition system, i have a 4 barrel intake and carb that came off a 360 and im goin to swap cams, now the question is which cam should i get ive found one that i can afford but it comes in two different specs, the one is 216/216 duration at .050 and .454/.454 lift with the op range of 2000-5000 rpms, the other is 228/228 duration at .050 and .480/.480 lift with the op range of 3000-6000 rpms, which one would i be better off with, this car is going to be a street car just for when i wanna somewhat fast car and i may take it to the track every now and then if its quick enough. whats your thoughts?

 

alright thats the one i was thinkin about goin with and i didn't really know because i dont have a tach in that car

 

yeah its just a stock rear end but if i get the money i would like to swap out rear end gears for somin around 3:1 i haven't checked on what gears are available yet

 

well just keeping you guys posted on things, got the new cam and lifters and pushrods and everything went together nicely i also got a shift kit installed in the trans, ran into a little problem with distributors but no big deal im going to switch it out when i get the extra for it but hopefully ill get everything back in over the weekend i do still need to find headers for it, does anybody know what headers will for that body style? i had a set of full length hooker headers but they wouldn't fit due to the oil filter location and the steering gear box

 

thanks for the link i think i know how to do it now

 

well got some good news i got my hooker headers back the other day and they match the summit ones on that link to damn near a T im painting the engine bay this weekend and hopefully get the engine and trans droped back in

 

i went with the 2000 to 5000 range cam from summit should be a good cam

 

well i got the headers in and im hoping to drop the engine in tomorrow its the only nice day for a couple of days so id like to get it all ready to go, but im trying to remove as much as i can from the engine bay and theres a part on the center of the firewall up top with 4 vacuum ports on it with a couple of connectors, does anybody know what this is and if i can remove it?

 

ok and heres a picture of it, the best one i can do since i only have my phone but it should give you guys an idea, and after gettin rained out last weekend i finally got the engine and trans back in and bolted up along with my headers before it rained... again, but it looks so much better then an empty engine bay but yes i did get rid of the lean burn system, the damn computer went out a while back and i didn't want it anyways so i pulled it off, but i cant remember where the hell the lines went to, im pretty sure they went down to the intake and if im thinking right it might of looped back around into itself but its been to long ago and i cant remember for sure

 

alright guys things are going pretty good on the old diplomat but have a few questions, when i had the engine out i swaped the feedback carb with a rodchester quadrajet and now im not sure where all my vacuum lines go from the charcoal canistor and from the vacuum ports on the intake, and since i got rid of the lean burn computer all together what all electrical connectors and wiring can i get rid of?

 

sorry for the bum post guys but thought id just update everyone on my progress, everythings almost done i bought a aluminum radiator and got all the brackets made for it so i should be getting that in soon and everything else is pretty much done. now for the bad new. when i switched the carb and intake combo from the stock 318 to a stock 360s the throttle linkage doesn't fit, anybody know what to do to make it work? ill try to get some pics tomorrow and post them up so everybody knows what im talkin about.