Hey - Speed-O-Motive is selling 318 Poly stroker kits!!! For $1500, one can be yours: http://www.speedomotive.com/ps-648-13-mopar-318-poly-to-402cid-stroker-kit.aspx ($200 extra for balancing - free shipping, but customer pays insurance). Anybody running a stroker kit from Speed-O-Motive? About ten years ago I tried to get them to build this kit for me... glad they finally decided to! FYI - the parts are out there, folks! The 318 Poly is the new black... ~Jason
I was thinking to myself, I bet its Swity or Flatoz who post on this thread first! You off to Phillip Island mate? The kit looks good. Danny
LOL! Maybe not. If'n they did, they likely wouldn't cover customs! However, if I was coming to OZ, I'd toss it in my suitcase, for ya, swifty! ~Jason
Phillip Island? To see the penguins or ride the go-karts? LOL! Some dead, naked guy just washed up Vic beach... weird. ~Jason
Thanks, Abomination! I've about given up finding a '54-'56 Firepower hemi for my '53 Mopar but you've provided a solution that should be more feasible and have enough cubes and power to not be shamed by rice rockets. Now just need to hunt a Weiand 4bbl intake or one of the old dual quad intakes for it since Chris Nielson has cams for it. Appreciate this! (I'd gotten to the point where I was thinking about one of my brother's bowtie engines and leaving the hood closed!)
I have a 331 now. If you're looking for a Hemi, talk to Paul aka povertyflats. He has a killer deal on shipping - like $200 to get it about anywhere in the US! He's got a BUNCH of hemis! For a Weiand 7504 4-bbl intake for a 318 Poly, talk to Gary on the 318 Poly Yahoo Group: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/318poly/ I think he has one for sale. Gary also sells roller rockers, and is working on cams. He has some nice cams, blueprinted regular rockers, etc. I know where dual quads are for the 318 Poly, etc. Hit me up if you're looking for stuff... or the Yahoo Group. We'll fix you up! Join it - you won't be sorry! And feel free to ask if you have any 318 Poly questions. ~Jason
We did them with a 3.58 stroke and 060" overbore. Mopar now makes that crank with the 318/340 journals but being a bit early we had them made from a 360 crank. Silvolite has a piston that works with this combo. Use the 360 balancer and flywheel or Converter. (or B&M 360 balance flexplate. ) Last one we did was a 2x4 barrel engine for a 66 fury with 3 by the knee. Also did 340s with the same crank and a 060 overbore for 380 cubes. Had to make those pistons from other cores. Always felt the 4 inch storke was pushing the limit a bit but G Palovich of Califonia got huge power with his at 5500 Rpm so the 402 works too. I dont like huge strokes as i traises the strian to above normal parameters so i tend to keep the stroke around 90% of bore but others are braver i guess and are having fun too. Any crank grinder can make you a 358 from a 360 stroke with the 340/318 main size. They do it for the chevy guys all the time with the 383 small blocks and also for the 400 stroker mopars with a turned down 440 crank.
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