do you know if you can stick a 1970s dodge 318 into a newer truck and

 

And............whats the rest if your Q?

Can you do it? Sure you can with enough money and detemination. I put a Cadillac 500CI in a 87 (g body) Olds 442. They question is why would you want to?

 

To replace a 5.9L (360) magnum engine perhaps?

 

Why would you want to? I'd see about one of those new crate HI-PO 340's to put in it but I'm sure you would have fun with the wiring and the computer. Better to do a late model Hemi swap.

 

Uh a 1970s 318? That sounds totally carbed and not FI like the newer 318s.

 

Becasue 500" Cad monster in a G body is cool...oh wait, wrong vehicle. I had my best friend convinced to do it to his 79 Malibu right before he totaled it.

It's been done, if it's going in place of an LA based magnum engine. I saw a stroked out 340 bottom end (392") with magnum heads, comp cams retro roller cam/lifters (mags oil the valve gear through the pushrods, like old AMC's, UNLIKE original LA engines) with hollow AMC style pushrods. Ungodly amounts of power with better flowing heads than that stock 340 ever had.

It is totally carb'd. Personally I wouldn't go backwards, the thing will never run right.

 

I understand what you mean. My 87 442 came with a computer controlled 307. When I pulled everything out I first went with a Olds 350 with MSD ignition and E-brock carb just so I could control everything myself and not be computerized.

 

Best car they had on that platform was the Grand National. My father's buddy had a Hurst/Olds and my uncle had a Monte SS. Both of them were dogs. When I was a teen kept asking my uncle why he didn't at least drop a 350 in it. This was the guy who was driving a 70 El Camino with a 370hp 400 small block before the Monte. 370 to 180, that's a helluva drop. The Cad swap would've been sweet, except for chopping off the header flanges. At the time, no one made headers for it, so you bought the Cad flanges, cut the flanges off BB Chevy headers and welded on the Cad flanges.

 

well the truck is not mine the guy just wanted to know if you could take the 360 out of the truck and replace it with a 318 thanks Ben

 

Physically, yes. There will be issues making it run right and power will be lost.