winter is here and our 86 RC 318 is wore out.
Strangely enough, my boneyard had no good carb 318’s but more than 1 good 360 2bbl so that and a 360 converter for the 727 came back with me.
Have any of you tried keeping a 2bbl intake (even a Holley 5002bbl counts) with a hotter cam, headers and seeing the RC has lean burn a performance curved ign system?

 

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any ideas eny body?

 

I assume the 79 is NOT computer controlled carb? If not, putting a small four barrel on there would be a smile-inducing upgrade. Don't go overboard on the carb, something with relatively small primaries, with larger secondaries, would give you the low end torque you want, but plenty of power is you start tickling the radiator with your toenails. It would also nicely compliment any other mods you do. Not having to deal with a computer, makes life MUCH easier for ya. Still lots of choices out there for the old LA engines.

 

Lean burn and performance don't go together. I would remove the whole system and get a standard(electronic) distributor with vac and centrifugal advance. Remove the stock intake(boat anchor) and put on a nice aluminum one(4 bbl edelbrock) with a spread bore carb. That would be a start, Exhaust would be next on the list.

 

The headers and W200 dual exhaust kit arrived from Summit today and tomorrow the performance curved distributor/coil/wires/plugs and wiring harness plus ign bow and dual resistor will be here from Amazon. On Monday the small Lunati cam,Crower cam saver lifters and comp cams single valve springs with dampener are due from Jegs. Also from O Reilly’s I got a comp cams Magnum series dual roller timing chain for $45.99 clearance price when picking up a new oil pump and gaskets.
I really don’t want to junk the 2bbl manifold and complete transmission control linkage either. In fact we already took the die grinder and made a 1/2 cut between the barrels and port matched it to gaskets and bolted the Holley 500 adapter to the intake and used the die grinder to “smooth” the passages and continue the 1/2” slot up to the carb mounting pad. The Holley 500 2bbl came with the RC and worked ok on the 318 and with the kicdown linkage already made, I really don’t want to change it. And also on of my family drivers rolled my 87 K5 on a sunny summer day getting on the freeway on ramp so I don’t want to get to radical with the RC driveline.
Thanks for the replies everyone!

 

I have tried to use a 2bl with cam upgrade as cam manufacturer said i could but motor was way lean .