Don Blake, kankakee, IL, 80 ply volare 2 dr 318

Hey there, Rick. I am putting a 99, 318 Mag engine and an AX 15, 5 spd trans into my Volare with an 8-1/4, 3.55 S.G. The engine is fresh, std bore, stock except for H 814 CP sealed Power hypereuctic, anti scuff coated pistons. (still on the stand partly assembled) The block was machine shop mic'd out and prepped, etc. Not just a "home honed" throw together, if you know what I mean. I plan on running the stock Magnum EFI on (so far what I have anyway) a stock 92 or 94 Dakota 318 computer. Eventually if I can find a good price on an MP '516 "chipped" ECM, that is in the plans too.

Heads are stock, standard back-of-parts-store mach. shop valve job. I plan on pulling the valves and doing a "clean up the casting fuzz" port job, not much more. I plan on this car being a cruiser not a racer.

My question is this; I just ran across a MP cam no. P 5007551. This is the R/T+10hp cam. I didnt get the cam card even though it is brand new and never run.How "wild" is this cam, and will it work out OK in an otherwise stock 318? I do know that all the R/Ts were 360s and that also theres a bunch more weight to a Dakota than my Volare. Will it work out with a stock ECM and valvesprings at least for the time being? I don't plan on hanging out at the redline a whole lot. or would I be better with the stock orig cam that was in my 318? (I guess that the exh duration on the stocker is less than the intake?) I know that alot of people knock the 318s and would say not to go with anything less than a 360. This is a budget build and part of that entails using what I already had laying around, hence the 318.